Can you feel it? Spring is in the air. Birds are chirping, trees are in bloom, New Yorkers are lying in Central Park, and the eels are migrating.
“So every year, thousands of baby migrating American eels, called glass eels, make a 2,000-mile journey all the way to Staten Island to come up into this location and spend their lives,” said Robert Brauman, New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
They’re born in the Sargasso Sea just south of the Bahamas and ride the Gulf Stream all the way up here…