Southern Appalachian Creature Feature

American eels in the mountains of Virginia


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All American eels hatch from eggs in the Sargasso Sea, an area of the Atlantic Ocean east of the Bahamas and south of Bermuda. From there, the young eels head west, swimming up streams from Canada to South America, where they spend most of their lives, returning to the ocean to reproduce and die.
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Southern Appalachian Creature FeatureBy U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service