Assertion: eel | /r/AtLocation | freshwater
Facets:
value: for most of their lives
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: I imagine that the latter reason is the most important; eels are catadromous fish, which means that they live in freshwater, but swim to the ocean to spawn (the opposite being anadromous fish, like salmon).
text: The eel lives in fresh water and estuaries and only leaves these habitats to enter the Atlantic Ocean to make its spawning migration to the Sargasso Sea.
text: They are found in freshwater, brackish water, and saltwater environments.
text: Eels that live in freshwater are from the family known as Anguillidae, which consists of 19 species and six subspecies.
text: Saltwater eels have bodies that are different from eels that live in freshwater because they are both longer and more cylindrical in shape and size, and they have a set of gills with multiple slits.
text: Some eels live in freshwater for most of their lives, but they return to the ocean to spawn.
text: Because the eels are catadromous (living in fresh water but spawning in the sea), dams and other river obstructions can block their ability to reach inland feeding grounds.
text: Eels live in both saltwater and fresh water.
text: These eels can be found in freshwater when young and then may move to more brackish water, or even into the ocean as they mature.