Commercial users need written authorization . Never returning spent adults have been found.
Eggs are undescribed.
At the transition into estuarine waters they shrink to 60 - 70 mm, decrease in hight to a round crossection and develop dark pigmentsdorsally. They are easyli misidentified as Anguilla rostrata or Anguilla anguilla because of the similar shape color and behavior, best distinguisher is the lower jaw protrudes farther than the snout tip. The First Year in the Life of Estuarine Fishes in the Middle Atlantic Bight. Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. J 1931 Eels and conger eels of the North Atlantic.