Oceanic Spawning Migration of the European Eel ( <i>Anguilla anguilla</i> )

Aarestrup, Kim; Økland, Finn; M. Hansen, Michael; Righton, David; Gargan, Patrik; Castonguay, Martín; Bernatchez, Louis; W. Howey, Paul; Sparholt, Henrik; Ingemann Pedersen, Michael; S. McKinley, R.

doi:10.1126/science.1178120

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Oceanic Spawning Migration of the European Eel ( Anguilla anguilla )

Published in Science • Sep 25, 2009

Authors:

Kim Aarestrup

Finn Økland

Michael M. Hansen

Abstract

European eels (Anguilla anguilla) undertake a approximately 5000-kilometer (km) spawning migration from Europe to the Sargasso Sea. The larvae are transported back to European waters by the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift. However, details of the spawning migration remain unknown because tracki...

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Sargasso sea

Oceanography

Satellite tracking

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