NOUN
- eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
How To Use freshwater eel In A Sentence
- The elver is the baby freshwater eel that is born in the Sargasso Sea south of Bermuda and drifts over to Europe on the Gulf Stream in the spring. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- Like the freshwater eel, congers undergo considerable morphological changes prior to spawning.
- Most arctic diadromous species are actually anadromous (i.e., use estuarine and/or marine environments for feeding and rearing; and freshwater environments for spawning, early life history, and, in the case of most arctic species, overwintering); only freshwater eels (Anguillidae) and some lampreys (Petromyzontidae) are catadromous (i.e., breed at sea and rear in freshwater). Effects of climate change on arctic anadromous fish
