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American eel (Anguilla rostrata) substrate selection for daytime refuge and winter thermal sanctuary
Tomie, J.P.N.; Cairns, D.K.; Hobbs, R.S.; Desjardins, M.; Fletcher, G.L.; Courtenay, S.C. (2017). American eel (Anguilla rostrata) substrate selection for daytime refuge and winter thermal sanctuary. Mar. Freshw. Res. 68(1): 95-105. https://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf15102
In: Marine and Freshwater Research. CSIRO: East Melbourne. ISSN 1323-1650; e-ISSN 1448-6059, meer
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  • Tomie, J.P.N.
  • Cairns, D.K.
  • Hobbs, R.S.
  • Desjardins, M.
  • Fletcher, G.L.
  • Courtenay, S.C.
Abstract
    We addressed hypotheses that anguillid eels use mud as a substrate refuge only in the absence of substrate cavities, and that the winter distribution of eels in coastal bay and estuarine habitat is limited to waters warmer than the freezing point of fish tissue (~–0.7°C). In the seasonally ice-covered southern Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada, locations of summer fyke and winter spear fisheries indicate that American eels (Anguilla rostrata) are widely distributed in both summer and winter in shallow soft-bottomed bay and estuarine habitat. Captive eels in fresh water preferred mud substrates during summer, during pre-winter cooling and during post-winter warming periods, but in winter chose mud and cobble substrates at approximately equal frequencies. Plasma antifreeze was not detected in blood sampled from eels speared in mud under winter ice. Winter bottom water temperatures in an eel wintering site were below the approximate freezing point of fish tissue 29.9% of the time. Mud of eel wintering grounds is warmer than overlying water and appears to serve as a thermal sanctuary that allows eels to safely overwinter under ice-covered waters. American eels in the southern Gulf of St Lawrence spend ~67% of their annual cycle within the substrate.
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