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European Eel

Fish

A catadromous fish that spends most of its life in European fresh water and coastal seas, then migrates thousands of kilometres to spawn in the Sargasso Sea, after which the larvae drift back across the Atlantic on ocean currents to reach European coasts and rivers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
System (Realm)
Marine 1
Relationship to People
Hunted or Fished 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 1
Derived from this species' own Conservation Status: this atlas's IUCN category list has no Extinct value, so a set conservation-status is itself evidence of living status (w-bfill-g5-0924 browse backfill).
Scientific Name
Anguilla anguilla 1
Conservation Status
Critically Endangered 1
Numbers of eels reaching Europe are thought to have declined by around 90 percent, possibly as much as 98 percent, since the 1970s.
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Anguillidae, Taxa
Source Wikidata: European Eel

In Biome

Estuary, Biomes
Source European Eel (Wikipedia)

In Ecosystem

Sargasso Sea, Ecosystems
Source European Eel (Wikipedia)
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Sources
1. European Eel (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Life cycle section
    After spawning in the Sargasso Sea, they disperse northwards throughout the Atlantic Ocean, its coasts, and the rivers that empty into it.
  • Taxobox
  • Conservation status section
    The European eel is a critically endangered species.
  • System/realm (stated plainly in the entity own recorded description)
    A catadromous fish that spends most of its life in European fresh water and coastal seas, then migrates thousands of kilometres to spawn in the Sargasso Sea, after which the larvae drift back across the Atlantic on ocean currents to reach European coasts and rivers.
  • Lead section
    overfishing by fisheries on coasts for human consumption
  • In Biome: Estuary
View the Source
Wikidata: European Eel
  • Wikidata Q26387, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Child Taxon Of: Anguillidae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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