‘Basically as big as they get’: Texas researcher finds huge eel washed ashore on Mustang Island

‘Basically as big as they get’: Texas researcher finds huge eel washed ashore on Mustang Island - KPRC2 Texas

Jace Tunnell, a reserve director at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, happened upon the dead eel, which had washed ashore. In a video on“This is basically as big as they get,” Tunnell said.

Tunnell added that American eels are typically much smaller and are frequently used as a fishing bait.Tunnel said the eel was likely a female -- They’re larger than the males. Large females can have up to four million eggs.as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species.

Tunnell explained that this was in part due to the negative impact of dam building on the eel’s life cycle. “Whenever all the dams and stuff started coming in, the life cycle of these fish, of going up the rivers, coming down the rivers, and going way out in to the ocean to be able to have their eggs […] with those dams on the rivers, really, they weren’t able to do the things they would normally do.”and education into preserving healthy Texas coastlines.Briana Zamora-Nipper joined the KPRC 2 digital team in 2019.

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