Distribution of Japanese Eel Anguilla japonica Revealed by Environmental DNA

A Kasai, A Yamazaki, H Ahn, H Yamanaka… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The abundance of Japanese eel Anguilla japonica has rapidly decreased in recent
decades. Following a re-evaluation of the possibility of extinction, the Japanese Ministry of …

Increasing or decreasing?-Current status of the Japanese eel stock

K Kaifu, K Yokouchi - Fisheries Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Although Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica, is listed as endangered on the
International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species, a previous …

Influence of environmental parameters on habitat use by sympatric freshwater eels Anguilla marmorata and Anguilla japonica on Yakushima Island, Japan

Y Kumai, M Kuroki, K Morita - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
It is known that environmental parameters, such as water depth, size of substrate material,
and current velocity, influence the organization of stream fish communities. However, few …

Environmental influences on late-summer individual Japanese eel diel activity and space utilization patterns in a shallow western Japan brackish lake

H Itakura, Y Miyake, R Wakiya, S Kimura - Fisheries Science, 2022 - Springer
The late-summer diel activity patterns and space utilization of five Japanese eels, Anguilla
japonica, were investigated using an acoustic telemetry positioning system in a shallow …

Slower growth of farmed eels stocked into rivers with higher wild eel density

R Wakiya, H Itakura, T Hirae, T Igari… - Journal of Fish …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Farmed anguillid eels are frequently stocked into natural fresh waters to enhance eel
resources, but little is known about what happens to these eels or their interactions with wild …

Japanese eel at the northern edge: glass eel migration into a river on Hokkaido, Japan

K Morita, M Kuroki - Ichthyological Research, 2021 - Springer
Evaluating climate-induced changes on species' distributions has implications for human
society, which depends on marine coastal ecosystems (Harley et al. 2006). There is now …

Environmental DNA Reveals Geographic Distributions of Two eel Species, Anguilla japonica and A. marmorata, in Western Kyushu, Japan

Y Ono, S Tsuchida, K Hirasaka, T Myosho, S Fujimoto… - Zoological Science, 2024 - BioOne
Some anguillid eels migrate thousands of kilometers from their spawning grounds,
dispersing across vast geographic areas to fresh and brackish water habitats, where they …

Inshore migration of Japanese eel Anguilla japonica encouraged by active horizontal swimming during the glass eel stage

T Karaki, K Sakamoto, G Yamanaka… - Fisheries …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The biomass of the Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica) is generally determined by the
recruitment of glass eels into freshwater habitats, but the behavioral biology of their inshore …

Anthropogenic impacts on the distribution of wild and cultured Japanese eels in the Tone River watershed, Japan, from otolith oxygen and carbon stable isotopic …

K Arai, H Itakura, A Yoneta, K Kaifu, K Shirai… - … Biology of Fishes, 2019 - Springer
Effective management decisions are vital for the declining Japanese eel Anguilla japonica.
Elucidating the distribution range of wild eels (ie, naturally recruited individuals) represents …

Distribution and size variability of Japanese eel leptocephali in their Pacific Ocean spawning area using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratio analyses

S Kimura, S Miyazaki, H Onda, T Kitagawa, Y Miyake… - 2021 - researchsquare.com
The diets of larval (leptocephali) anguillid and marine eels are poorly understood, despite
studies on their gut contents or stable isotope ratios suggesting marine snow particles …