Did a “perfect storm” of oceanic changes and continental anthropogenic impacts cause northern hemisphere anguillid recruitment reductions?

MJ Miller, E Feunteun… - ICES Journal of Marine …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The three northern hemisphere anguillid eel species experienced recruitment declines at
similar times beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, but the exact causes of the declines have …

A unifying hypothesis for the spawning migrations of temperate anguillid eels

CMF Durif, HH Stockhausen, AB Skiftesvik… - Fish and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Anguillid eels grow in freshwater but spawn in the open ocean. The cues that guide eels
over long distances to the spawning area are unknown. The Earth's magnetic field can …

Spawning sites of the Japanese eel in relation to oceanographic structure and the West Mariana Ridge

J Aoyama, S Watanabe, MJ Miller, N Mochioka… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica, spawns within the North Equatorial Current that
bifurcates into both northward and southward flows in its westward region, so its spawning …

Anguillids: widely studied yet poorly understood—a literature review of the current state of Anguilla eel research

RE Stuart, JD Stockwell, JE Marsden - Reviews in Fish Biology and …, 2024 - Springer
Freshwater eels (Anguillidae) are facing numerous anthropogenic impacts that have led to
declines in abundance for nearly all species. They have a complex life history that includes …

Ontogeny and growth of early life stages of captive-bred European eel

SR Sørensen, J Tomkiewicz, P Munk, IAE Butts… - Aquaculture, 2016 - Elsevier
Captive breeding of European eel, Anguilla anguilla is challenged by the complex hormonal
control of Anguillid eel reproduction and the distinctive ontogeny of the leptocephalus larvae …

First use of oceanic environmental DNA to study the spawning ecology of the Japanese eel Anguilla japonica

A Takeuchi, S Watanabe, S Yamamoto… - Marine Ecology …, 2019 - int-res.com
Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis is emerging as an innovative tool to assess the
distribution and biomass of species in aquatic environments that enables quick and non …

Effects of salinity and sea salt type on egg activation, fertilization, buoyancy and early embryology of European eel, Anguilla anguilla

SR Sørensen, IAE Butts, P Munk, J Tomkiewicz - Zygote, 2016 - cambridge.org
Improper activation and swelling of in vitro produced eggs of European eel, Anguilla
anguilla, has been shown to negatively affect embryonic development and hatching. We …

Several possible spawning sites of the Japanese eel determined from collections of their eggs and preleptocephali

A Takeuchi, T Higuchi, S Watanabe, MJ Miller, R Yama… - Fisheries science, 2021 - Springer
The spawning area of the Japanese eel is located at the southern part of the West Mariana
Ridge in the western North Pacific, but their spawning events have not been observed. To …

European eel–an integrated approach to establish eel hatchery technology in Denmark

J Tomkiewicz, SN Politis, SR Sørensen… - Eels Biol Monit …, 2019 - books.google.com
As catadromous fishes, anguillid eels have a stage-structured life cycle involving continental
juvenile stages followed by diverse oceanic reproductive and larval stages. Within the latter …

Species composition of anguillid glass eels recruited at southern Mindanao Island, the Philippines

F Shirotori, T Ishikawa, C Tanaka, J Aoyama… - Fisheries Science, 2016 - Springer
Commercial exploitation of tropical Anguilla species has been expanding rapidly in
Southeast Asia, even though their ecological status is unknown. In the present study, we …