http://www.diatribune.com/marine-life-series-catadromous-eels Comments for "Marine Life Series: Catadromous Eels" en http://www.diatribune.com/marine-life-series-catadromous-eels <p>Most of you are at least somewhat familiar with the life cycle of Salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Born in rivers and streams far inland, the newly hatched young float downstream toward the ocean where they live out most of their lives in salt water.&nbsp; Each year a mass migration occurs where adults battle their way upstream and over waterfalls back to their fresh water nursery grounds where they spawn, die and become bear food.&nbsp; Fish that do this are called anadromous.</p> <p>Here in my New England backyard lives another species of fish, the American Eel (<em>Anguilla rostrata</em>), which does the opposite. Known as catadromous fish, they are born in salt water, spend their lives in freshwater rivers and lakes and then return to the ocean to spawn.</p> <p><a href="http://www.diatribune.com/marine-life-series-catadromous-eels">read more</a></p> http://www.diatribune.com/marine-life-series-catadromous-eels#comments marine life Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:14:08 -0600 Mark H 491 at http://www.diatribune.com