American Eel Migration and Water Temperature in Mill Pond, Massachusetts, 2015

The Mill Pond elver ladder is one of only a few in Massachusetts with a trap to enumerate migrating young-of-the-year American eels (Anguilla rostrata). This dataset, collected by NOAA NCEI, records the total number of eels and water temperature from April 1 to October 15, 2015, as the start of a long-term proxy for eel status in small coastal watersheds.

Use Cases

• Modeling eel migration timing based on water temperature data mentioned in the description
• Establishing a baseline population index for American eels in small coastal watersheds as described
• Analyzing seasonal patterns in elver (young eel) counts from the enumerated trap data

Strengths

• Data originates from one of only a few elver ladders with an enumeration trap in Massachusetts
• Designed as the start of a long-term monitoring proxy for American eel population status

Limitations

• Last updated 2015-10-15 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data collected from an elver ladder trap at Mill Pond, Massachusetts.

Time Range

2015-04-01 to 2015-10-15

Freshness

Last updated 2015-10-15 00:00:00

Geography

Mill Pond, Massachusetts, USA