short-finned eel
anguilla australis latin

The area would have provided a good source of food, particularly Short-finned eel.

Since short-finned eels make excellent eating, there is global demand for them.

Short-finned eels make excellent eating and has long been esteemed as an important food in the world.

The lake is also fished commercially for short-finned eel.

The consumption of short-finned eels is a longstanding tradition in many pacific nations.

But Australia's short-finned eels travel to an unknown place deep in the Pacific to do the same.

Short-finned eels make excellent eating.

Maori are now concerned that the commercial fishery is compromising their ability to harvest short-finned eels for ceremonial purposes.

Other fish life includes schools of short-finned eel, river blackfish, pouched lampreys, mullet and common galaxias.

Short-finned eels can travel anything up to three or four thousand kilometres to their spawning ground in deep water somewhere in the Coral Sea.

They built stone dams to hold the water in these areas, creating ponds and wetlands in which they grew Short-finned eels and other fish.

Tropical species have year round recruitment where temperate species such as the short-finned eel have strong seasonal recruitment.

The short-finned eel, Anguilla australis, is one of the 15 species of eel in the family Anguillidae.

Because of declining catches of both the European and Japanese glass eels, seed from the short-finned eels is at a commercial premium.

Anguilla australis australis (short-finned eel)

Three types of fish can also be found in the wetlands: Common Galaxia, Short-finned Eels and Mosquitofish (an exotic pest species).

The lake is also home to native freshwater fish including banded kokopu, inanga, common smelt, common bully, grey mullet, longfin and short-finned eel.

Important food eel species include longfin eel, Australian long-finned eel, short-finned eel, and Japanese eel.

Aquatic fauna once included fish species such as Short-finned Eel, Common Galaxias, Flat-headed Gudgeon and Small-mouth Hardyhead.

For the Māori people of New Zealand, starved of protein after the extinction of New Zealand megafauna, the short-finned eel was a significant food resource.

It also supports many fish, such as black bream, common galaxias, short-finned eel, flat-headed gudgeon, Tamar River goby, small-mouthed hardyhead, goldfish, yellow-eyed mullet and mosquito fish.

Short-finned Eel, Tupong, Short-headed Lamprey, Australian Grayling, Common Galaxias, Broad-finned galaxies and Spotted galaxias, Southern black bream etc.

Other fish that may be found in the river include native species such as the Australian bass, short-finned eel, long-finned eel, gudgeons, and the river blackfish, and introduced species such as brown trout and carp.

In the lower zone, eastern gambusia, long-finned eel, Australian smelt, short-finned eel and congoli were all more abundant in Snowy River while common galaxias and short-headed lamprey were more abundant at tributaries.

The Pacific shortfinned eel (Anguilla obscura, also known as the Pacific shortfinned freshwater eel, the Short-finned eel, and the South Pacific eel) is an eel in the family Anguillidae.