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A SAlty tAlE:
The American Eel9s
Remarkable Journey
Benjamin Harris, Watershed Scientist
Raritan Headwaters
I
magine the fun of a walk along a stretch of our Raritan
River, taking in the natural beauty around you. There are
Sycamore trees, skunk cabbage, animal tracks on the path,
and songbirds singing overhead. You notice some interesting
rocks at the stream9s edge. When you reach into the cold water to
pick one up, something darts out from the rock9s base. What was
that?
Kneeling closer, you spot a tiny, translucent filament 4 the tail
A year from now, the surviving eels from this year9s migration
of a snake-like creature slipping beneath another rock for shelter.
will have developed into
