Glass eels at historic low in the Atlantic, but more might be lurking in the Hudson
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Roughly 1,000 Hudson River Eel project volunteers net, count, and release about two million juvenile American eels per migrating season.
The Hudson River Eel Project – which has netted, counted and released roughly 2 million juvenile eels since its inception in 2008 – owes its success to a cadre of nearly 1,000 high school, college and adult citizen scientists donating time and effort each spring along the Hudson River.
Mayor and others were on hand at ribbon cutting ceremony this week.
The Hudson Eel Project is run by the DEC, coordinated by their Hudson River Estuary Program and the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, and staffed by powerede by volunteers. This citizen science project is succeeding at its dual objects of collecting data about glass eels while developing a sense of place and stewardship in volunteers