Programs protect New York’s Hudson Valley eels and amphibians

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently announced that along the Hudson River estuary, teachers, students, and volunteers are venturing into tributary streams to participate in ongoing research on migrating juvenile American eels (Anguilla rostrata).
Now in its 18th year, the project was initiated by DEC’s Hudson River Estuary Program and the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve to gather data for multi-state management plans for eel conservation.

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