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Parramatta Eels coach Brad Arthur has played down the team's premiership chances for this season. (perthnow.com.au)
Call it a clever marketing campaign or just one great big tease but the Parramatta Eels have begun to unveil their special jersey for the NRL Auckland Nines tournament, but it could take a while. (nrl.com)

Eel larvae then metamorphose into glass eels and become elvers before finally seeking out their juvenile and adult habitats. (wikipedia.org)
Larval eels become glass eels as they transition from the ocean to fresh water. (wikipedia.org)
Now known as glass eels, they move into freshwater estuaries where they develop into the elvers that migrate up streams and rivers to transform first into yellow eels, then into the mature silver eels that migrate back to the Sargasso Sea to spawn and die. (scienceblog.com)
The annual catch in Japan of young known as glass eels has fallen to 10% of 1960 levels. (bangkokpost.com)
Once they hatch into larvae, the creatures drift towards coastlines, growing on the way into glass eels. (bangkokpost.com)
Over 99% of the supply in Japan consists of caught or imported glass eels raised to maturity on farms. (bangkokpost.com)
Others feel it has more to do with the sale of glass eels in fish markets over seas. (saltwaterfishing247.com)

The term "eel" is also used for some other eel-shaped fish, such as electric eels (genus Electrophorus ), spiny eels (family Mastacembelidae), swamp eels (family Synbranchidae), and deep-sea spiny eels (family Notacanthidae). (wikipedia.org)
The role of swamp eels in larger ponds (with higher lever predators) appears to be as a mid-level. (usgs.gov)
Findings of this study imply a relatively low prey consumption by Asian swamp eels in aquaculture. (usgs.gov)
Results of this study suggest that although swamp eels prey directly on native fishes and. (usgs.gov)
Examination of the gastrointestinal tracts and associated tissues of swamp eels (M. albus) imported. (usgs.gov)
Results show that live swamp eels imported to the United States from gnathostome-endemic areas. (usgs.gov)
Gnathostoma spinigerum in Live Asian Swamp Eels (Monopterus spp. (cdc.gov)

Electric eels can generate an electrical charge of up to 600 volts in order to stun prey and keep predators at bay. (nationalgeographic.com)
From the electric eel to the echidna, many animals rely on electric currents to communicate, find prey, and defend themselves. (nationalgeographic.com)
Like the fangtooth snake-eel, the stippled spoon-nose eel burrows into the sandy or muddy seafloor to wait for prey, FishBase said. (livescience.com)
If the prey is too large, these eels will knot themselves around their victim in order to tear off smaller pieces. (aquarium.co.za)
Recent interests focus on speciation and hybridization processes in Bahamas mosquitofish, causes and concequences of fish migration, host-parasite interactions between fish and mussels, harbour porpoise foraging ecology, win-win solutions for hydropower and the Atlantic eel and salmon, as well as prey movement in a landscape of fear. (lu.se)

One of the new species of electric eel presented in his 2019 paper , Volta's electric eel (Electrophorus voltai), is capable of producing 860-volt electric shocks--the strongest electric discharge of any animal on Earth and 210 volts higher than the previous record. (eurekalert.org)
The previously well-known species of electric eel, Electrophorus electricus , can produce up to 650 volts, but that pales in comparison to the 860 volts generated by voltai . (bgr.com)

[5] Many eels remain in the sea throughout their lives, but freshwater elvers of eels in the family Anguillidae travel upstream and are forced to climb up obstructions, such as weirs , dam walls, and natural waterfalls. (wikipedia.org)
As freshwater elvers, eels work their way upstream. (wikipedia.org)
Research by USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and collaborators suggests that erosion in small freshwater streams could be a contributing factor in the decline in American eel populations recorded over the last two decades. (scienceblog.com)
The observations are a result of a project by the SRS Coldwater Streams and Trout Habitat unit in Blacksburg, VA, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, and the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests to learn more about the American eel in its freshwater habitat. (scienceblog.com)
Because it actually spends most of its lifespan in streams, the American eel is considered a freshwater fish. (scienceblog.com)
Diverse migration strategy between freshwater and seawater habitats in the freshwater eel genus Anguilla . (springer.com)
When a European eel reaches maturity, it migrates from the North Atlantic Sargasso Sea to European rivers, switching habitat from salt water to freshwater. (arizona.edu)
eel migrate to freshwater habitats for growth and return to the sea to spawn, while salmon spawn in freshwater and migrate to the sea for foraging and growth opportunity. (lu.se)

Though scattered so widely, American eels spawn in only one location-the Sargasso Sea in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. (scienceblog.com)
But despite their ubiquity, it wasn't until the early 20th century that European scientists discovered that European and American eels are born somewhere in the Sargasso Sea near Cuba, with their larvae then carried by currents to different regions. (bangkokpost.com)
The American eel is born in the Sargasso Sea and makes its way back up the rivers and streams all up and down the East Coast. (saltwaterfishing247.com)

Now, a newly-discovered species, Electrophorus voltai , has shattered records, producing a far more powerful jolt than any other eel ever studied. (bgr.com)

Spiny eels are relatively uncommon in the archaeological record and within the general diet of the Punjabi folk. (harappa.com)

Eel larvae drift in the sea's surface waters, feeding on marine snow , small particles that float in the water. (wikipedia.org)
After hatching, eel larvae drift for months on ocean currents, finally making their way to coastal areas. (scienceblog.com)

Kenneth Tighe, a specialist in amphibians and reptiles at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Maryland, said he, too, thought the cryptic fish looked like A. chauliodus , which is also known as the fangtooth snake-eel, according to the BBC . (livescience.com)
The fangtooth snake-eel can dig a burrow in the seafloor, where it hides with only its snout and eyes exposed. (livescience.com)

On its own, this was an intriguing discovery, electric eels--a type of knifefish rather than true eels--were thought to be solitary creatures. (eurekalert.org)
However, these other clades evolved their eel-like shapes independently from the true eels. (wikipedia.org)

Fortunately for de Santana, who has been shocked more than once by individual eels in the field, the shock only lasts about two-thousandths of a second, but it is enough to cause a painful muscle spasm that might knock a person off their feet. (eurekalert.org)
This past summer, SRS researchers and their collaborators began assessing the abundance, habitat use, growth, and activity of American eels in the headwater tributaries of the James and Potomac rivers in Virginia, using radiotelemetry to track the daily and seasonal movements of individual eels along a stream network. (scienceblog.com)

Mature silver stage eels migrate back to the ocean to mate. (wikipedia.org)

I used some magic on it to make parts of it readable, but if that was not good enough, here is what it says: The Electric Eel is the most powerful of all the electric fishes. (scienceblogs.com)
Channomuraena vittata (Banded Creeping Eel) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family morays . (eol.org)

Nineteen yellow-stage eels were surgically implanted with radio-tags, comprising A. mossambica ( n = 2), A. bengalensis ( n = 9) and A. marmorata ( n = 8), and tracked from October 2018 to August 2019. (springer.com)

Barriers to headwater habitats have been identified as a possible factor in eel decline. (scienceblog.com)
High sediment loads from flooding or erosion could fill in the cracks and undercut banks occupied by the eels during the winter, smothering them or forcing them to migrate to less desirable habitats. (scienceblog.com)

citation needed] In 2000, Eels released Daisies of the Galaxy. (wikipedia.org)
some, such as FishBase , divide eels into 20 families, whereas other classifications such as ITIS and Systema Naturae 2000 , include additional eel families, which are noted below the family with which they are synonymized in the FishBase system. (wikipedia.org)

But in this lake along the banks of the Iriri River in Brazil's state of Pará, the researchers witnessed the eels working together to herd small fish called tetras into tightly packed balls. (eurekalert.org)
In an effort to create a power source for future implantable technologies, a team of researchers developed an electric eel-inspired device that produced 110 volts from gels filled with water, called hydrogels. (sciencedaily.com)
In an effort to create a power source for future implantable technologies, a team led by Michael Mayer from the University of Fribourg, along with researchers from the University of Michigan and UC San Diego, developed an electric eel-inspired device that produced 110 volts from gels filled with water, called hydrogels. (sciencedaily.com)
Although researchers expected the eels to move out of the smaller streams into larger, deeper streams for the winter, the radiotelemetry studies showed that the eels actually spent most of their time underneath the boulders and undercut banks of the headwater streams, moving little. (scienceblog.com)
The eels' mode of navigation had baffled researchers, especially because the stretch of sea was found to have no distinguishing features that young eels could use as landmarks. (arizona.edu)
Researchers from University of Miami in Florida and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill discovered that the eels completed this journey using the Earth's magnetic field as a guide. (arizona.edu)

Slime eels, otherwise known as Pacific hagfish, cover Highway 101 after a flatbed truck carrying them in tanks overturned near Depoe Bay, Oregon, July 13, 2017. (adn.com)
Slime eels, otherwise known as Pacific hagfish, cover Highway 101 after a flatbed truck carrying them live in tanks overturned near Depoe Bay, Oregon, July 13, 2017. (adn.com)

We propose a method that enables STEM to characterize and quantify elemental surface enrichment within radially symmetrical particles at a spatial resolution of less than 1 nm when used in conjunction with electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). (cdc.gov)
A professor at McMaster since 1979, his group has studied inner shell electron energy loss (EELS) spectroscopy of gases and surfaces, using home built instruments. (lu.se)

Most eel species are nocturnal , and thus are rarely seen. (wikipedia.org)
These eels are nocturnal feeders. (aquarium.co.za)

It is important to be able to allow the eel slime and melting ice to drain from your bucket so that they don't drown. (saltwaterfishing247.com)
Eel slime is fairly disgusting and rags are needed for either method. (saltwaterfishing247.com)
PORTLAND, Ore. - In a scene straight out of your nightmares, a truck full of "slime eels" lost its load Thursday on U.S. 101, causing a five-car crash, dousing sedans with goo and sending sea creatures slithering across vehicles and the highway. (adn.com)
Technically, the fish were not eels, but hagfish, which have a skull but no jaw or spine and they secrete slime when distressed, earning them the nickname "slime eels. (adn.com)

[3] [4] Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage and are usually predators . (wikipedia.org)
Eel eggs hatch firstly into the leptocephalus larval stage. (wikipedia.org)

When it spies a tasty fish or crustacean, the eel darts out from its burrow to nab its next meal, according to FishBase. (livescience.com)

Phenotypic plasticity of habitat use by three temperate eel species, Anguilla anguilla , A. japonica and A. rostrata . (springer.com)

The European conger is the heaviest of all eels. (wikipedia.org)
The heaviest true eel is the European conger . (wikipedia.org)
However, Tighe noted that the marine critter could also be a garden or conger eel, as these species also live off the Texas coast and have "large, fang-like teeth," he told the BBC. (livescience.com)

Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes ( / æ ŋ ˈ ɡ w ɪ l ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / ), which consists of eight suborders, 20 families , 164 genera , and about 1000 species . (wikipedia.org)

The American eel (Anguilla rostrata) is found over a very large geographic range that extends from Greenland to South America. (scienceblog.com)
Foraging specialisms influence space use and movement patterns of the European eel Anguilla anguilla . (springer.com)

If the specimen is substantially larger (longer than 1 m [3 feet]), my money is on the stippled spoon-nose eel ( Echiophis punctifer )," he said. (livescience.com)
Given that the mysterious creature is fairly long, Murawski said he suspects the washed-up specimen is a stippled spoon-nose eel. (livescience.com)

These eels live in tropical waters from the Gulf of Mexico to French Guiana in South America, swimming at depths ranging from about 100 feet to 300 feet (33 to 91 meters) below the surface. (livescience.com)
In the early 1800s, German naturalist Alexander Humboldt visited South America and reported seeing electric eels attacking horses that entered their pools. (scienceupdate.com)

As continental drift affected marine currents and the distance grew between the areas where eels lived and laid eggs, the creature has adapted," she told AFP. (bangkokpost.com)
Spit-and-egg gleaming nests of eel eggs up and down the Thames far as you could see. (smokelong.com)

Deep in the Brazilian Amazon River basin, scientists led by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History fish research associate C. David de Santana discovered a small, river-fed lake filled with more than 100 adult electric eels, many of which were upwards of 4 feet long. (eurekalert.org)
The mystery of eel reproduction has fascinated scientists for thousands of years, with even ancient Greek philosopher and naturalist Aristotle puzzling over it. (bangkokpost.com)
Since 2012, scientists in the four territories where the Japanese eel is most commonly found have worked together on conservation, setting aquaculture quotas in 2015. (bangkokpost.com)

In 1996 and 1997, Eels toured extensively to support the album, building their name as a live act in the United States and Europe. (wikipedia.org)
Two particles were investigated extensively using EELS and EDS analysis. (cdc.gov)

In the Amazon river section, they have an electric eel. (scienceblogs.com)
While we're on the topic, we thought you might enjoy these videos of electric eels using their super powers to defend the world from evil. (scienceblogs.com)
Using aluminum panels as electrodes, Japanese inventor Kazuhiko Minawa has powered a mall Christmas tree with an electric eel. (scienceblogs.com)
Minawa told Reuters Televesion that "If we could gather all electric eels from all around the world, we would be able to light up an unimaginably giant Christmas tree. (scienceblogs.com)
video: An animated video abstract describing newly discovered group-hunting behavior found in electric eels. (eurekalert.org)
Nothing like this has ever been documented in electric eels. (eurekalert.org)
Just last year, he tripled the number of known species of electric eels , which had stood at one for roughly 250 years. (eurekalert.org)
The freshly described Volta's electric eel, which can reach lengths of 8 feet, is also the species behind the social hunting strategy at the center of de Santana's new research. (eurekalert.org)
De Santana's team first witnessed Volta's electric eel hunting in groups during a field expedition in August of 2012. (eurekalert.org)
Bastos, now a scientist at INPA, discovered a small lake directly connected with the Iriri River, and to his amazement, the lake held more than 100 adult electric eels. (eurekalert.org)
A subsequent expedition in October 2014 found a similarly prodigious collection of Volta's electric eels in the same locality, which allowed Bastos to document the behavior in greater detail and confirm that it was not just a one-time event. (eurekalert.org)
For the majority of the day and the night, the eels lay almost motionless in the deeper end of the lake, only occasionally coming to the surface to breathe-- electric eels get the vast majority of their oxygen from air , an adaptation in response to the low-oxygen waters they sometimes inhabit. (eurekalert.org)
Despite their serpentine appearance, electric eels are not actually eels. (nationalgeographic.com)
Electric eels can reach huge proportions, exceeding 8 feet in length and 44 pounds in weight. (nationalgeographic.com)
Human deaths from electric eels are extremely rare. (nationalgeographic.com)
Electric eels leaping from the water deliver a more powerful shock to an animal they perceive to be a threat than when they're underwater, according to research. (nationalgeographic.com)
Electric eels would turn around from retreating to do this explosive attack, emerging from the water while giving off high voltage discharges and pressing their chin against the conductor, which would normally be an animal of some kind. (scienceupdate.com)
Psychotropic Electric Eel Dreams IV is what its title suggests: It was built around recordings he made of electric eels in the waters of Brazil. (downbeat.com)
Of all the creatures you could encounter while taking a dip in the Amazon rainforest, coming into contact with an electric eel would likely be one of the more painful meetings. (bgr.com)
The discovery of new electric eel species in Amazonia, one of the planet's biodiversity hotspots, is suggestive of the vast amount of species that remain to be discovered in nature," Carlos David de Santana, first author of the study, said . (bgr.com)

Eels are elongated fish, ranging in length from 5 cm (2 in) in the one-jawed eel ( Monognathus ahlstromi ) to 4 m (13 ft) in the slender giant moray . (wikipedia.org)
Eels feed mostly on fish and crustaceans, and most species adjust well to life in captivity and are very hardy inhabitants. (liveaquaria.com)
Because the fish was in a high state of decay, Desai opted to leave the eel on the beach and "let nature take its course," she told the BBC. (livescience.com)
Then, it's the mysterious eel with James Prosek, author of Eels, An Exploration, From New Zealand To The Saragasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish . (splendidtable.org)
It hardly seems worth the trouble for a fish that big to grab an eel so small. (saltwaterfishing247.com)
An eel, rigged and ready to catch big fish. (saltwaterfishing247.com)
It is most commonly associated with larger reef-dwelling fish such as moray eels, barracuda, red snapper, and amberjack. (medscape.com)

Most eels live in the shallow waters of the ocean and burrow into sand, mud, or amongst rocks. (wikipedia.org)

After being named in the Auckland Nines team of the tournament, Norman has been laying on some superb tries for the Eels with slick passing, deft kicking and some very quick tap-ons. (nrl.com)
It was a night for sex and writhing hedonism, hug the passing heat, the slick sides of a fellow eel who looked exactly the same as all the other eels and yet we'd swear, sobbing into the four a.m. ache of another night left alone: it'd break us not to see them again. (smokelong.com)

Lady Colin Campbell found that the eel fisheries at Ballisodare were greatly improved by the hanging of loosely plaited grass ladders over barriers, enabling elvers to ascend more easily. (wikipedia.org)

A larger aquarium with adequate hiding places and a well-sealed lid is essential for maintaining Eels. (liveaquaria.com)

The code used for home range analysis (PHRE) has been developed by Max Tarjan and is freely available on GitHub ( https://github.com/mtarjan/PHRE/blob/master/PHRE_eel.R ). (springer.com)

Although eels have historically occupied all of the Atlantic watersheds, little is known about their seasonal behavior or distribution patterns in headwater mountain streams. (scienceblog.com)
Preliminary results show that the daily activity of eels is strongly influenced by seasonal changes, and somewhat unexpectedly, that the eels actually winter in the smaller headwater streams. (scienceblog.com)
These findings have important implications for how the streams that provide habitat for American eels are managed. (scienceblog.com)

In 2014, the Japanese eel was listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which cited factors including habitat loss, overfishing, pollution and migration barriers. (bangkokpost.com)
We collaborate with the hydropower industry to find passage solutions for both up- and downstream migration past migration barriers, and also evaluate distribution patterns and habitat restoration best practises for Atlantic eel and salmon. (lu.se)

A century-long mystery has been solved thanks to the discovery that eels are capable of sensing the Earth's magnetic field and using it for navigation. (arizona.edu)

Hurricane Harvey stranded a mysterious fanged eel on the beach in Texas, leaving the animal to die, rot and bloat. (livescience.com)

citation needed] E has performed two of the songs from Broken Toy Shop ("The Only Thing I Care About" and "Manchester Girl") for his own live shows with the Eels. (wikipedia.org)
Eels live both in salt and fresh water, and some species are catadromous . (wikipedia.org)
Some eels also live in deeper water on the continental shelves and over the slopes deep as 4,000 m (13,000 ft). (wikipedia.org)
Floral moray eels live in the Indo-West Pacific, the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean from Oman to East London. (aquarium.co.za)

[1] Eels swim by generating waves that travel the length of their bodies. (wikipedia.org)

Understanding the decline in anguillid eels. (springer.com)
Worldwide decline of eel resources necessitates immediate action. (springer.com)

New substrate design allows for passage of a wider size range of eels with less need for precise flow regulation. (usgs.gov)
And the precise location of eel spawning sites remained an enigma until 2009, when a scientific mission pinpointed the breeding grounds of the Japanese eel, west of the Mariana Islands, some 2,000-3,000 kilometres from Japan's coasts. (bangkokpost.com)

But all our hundred years of eel living through the litter, the fishing - and now these cast-off bales of cocaine? (smokelong.com)
Eels are easy to keep alive before, during and after use and are just plain deadly when it comes to striper fishing. (saltwaterfishing247.com)
With an aerated tank in the basement, I was able to keep the eels alive until I started fishing again in late April. (saltwaterfishing247.com)

Given the breadth of flow typologies used by Thukela eels across the seasons, conservation of these long-lived species indicates that management of river flows needs to be sensitive to their habitat requirements all year round, but in many water-stressed South African rivers, this may be unlikely. (springer.com)

One bookmaker has the Eels only behind Melbourne to lift the Provan-Summons trophy in late October. (perthnow.com.au)
Last year, only Penrith and Melbourne bettered the Eels' error-rate. (theage.com.au)

Via their Instagram and Twitter accounts (@theparraeels), the Eels revealed three separate sections of the jersey on Saturday and will unveil all told nine different images before the final product is revealed to all. (nrl.com)

Now, Vanderbilt neurobiologist Kenneth Catania reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on experiments that replicated the eels dramatic attacks using model animals. (scienceupdate.com)
There has been a dramatic decrease in the American eel population over the last few years and there are fingers being pointed in all directions. (saltwaterfishing247.com)

The perished eel achieved online fame after science communicator Preeti Desai came across the creature, snapped its photo and posted the image to Twitter on Sept. 6 . (livescience.com)

Right: juvenile eel climbing wetted ABS plastic substrate. (usgs.gov)

The eel takes nearly 15 years to mature sexually and to return to the Sargasso to spawn. (saltwaterfishing247.com)

Eels 50, Rabbitohs 65, Drawn 3. (nrl.com)
The Eels have been drawn to play the Sea Eagles, Knights and Dragons in the Rangitoto pool in what will be their first appearance as a team following the departure of superstar fullback Jarryd Hayne. (nrl.com)

Information on movements, habitat use and overlap by African eels is needed for their conservation. (springer.com)
Large-scale, seasonal habitat use and movements of yellow American eels in the St. Lawrence River revealed by acoustic telemetry. (springer.com)

Eels (often typeset as eels or EELS) is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1991 by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett, known by the stage name E. Band members have changed over the years, both in the studio and on stage, making Everett the only official member for most of the band's work. (wikipedia.org)
Consumed worldwide, eel is particularly popular in Asia, and perhaps nowhere more so than Japan, where remains found in tombs show it has been eaten on the archipelago for thousands of years. (bangkokpost.com)
We think that the eel emerged approximately 60 million years ago, near the island of Borneo," explains Mari Kuroki, assistant professor at Tokyo University's aquatic biosciences department. (bangkokpost.com)
Studies are being done on just what is happening and for now the ASMFC has decided not to recommend any changes in the laws regarding eels until more information is gathered, so it appears that we are safe for the next few years anyways. (saltwaterfishing247.com)

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