He favors a compromise to allow some eels to move upstream, such as limits on days fishing or on the number of fishermen. Kils plans to install a fish ladder next year at Nacote Creek in Port Republic so eels can get past an obstacle. He said more things like that must be done. Eels have somehow managed to make it through the many gauntlets created by man. Evidence suggests they can even move over land and through groundwater.
Nobody really knows, but people are finally looking because they have become so valuable.
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