A possession limit of 50 eels for recreational fishermen. Around age 2 the juvenile or yellow eel stage resembles the adult form. They inhabitat estuaries, rivers, streams, and lakes and feed on invertebrates and smaller fish. Prefer areas with soft bottom and vegetation to hide in. The mature silver eel life state occurs at the time of downstream migration, leaving the estuary for the open ocean to spawn then die.
Seaward migration occurs in late summer and fall.