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Article: Scientists cite danger from dams in declining East Coast eel population.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- November 18, 2004
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By Beth Daley, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 18--BENTON, MAINE -- The Sebasticook River here once ran so thick with eels that Native Americans could catch thousands just by blocking the river with stones and brush. Eels were a staple for New England's early colonists, a high-protein meat that could be eaten every meal of the day, boiled, fried, stewed, or jellied.
But over the last several decades the region's eels have been quietly disappearing, a trend largely ignored by environmentalists bent on saving better-known species.
"Eels are the Rodney Dangerfields of our rivers; they don't get any respect," said ...