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Lacey act
Originally passed in 1900, the U.S. Lacey Act makes it a federal crime to poach game in one state with the purpose of selling the bounty in another. Introduced in the House of Representatives by Iowa Congressman John Lacey over a century ago, the Lacey Act has been revised several times turning it into one of the broadest and most comprehensive policies in the federal arsenal designed to combat wildlife crime. On May 22, 2008, the U.S. Congress approved a new amendment to the Lacey Act, making -
european eel
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Interactive maps: Point Distribution Maps Nonindigenous Occurrences: One specimen was collected from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Contra Costa County, California in January 1969 (Skinner 1971). Another was collected from San Pablo Bay, in or before 1977 (McCosker 1989; Williamson and Tabeta 1991). Collected in San Francisco Bay (Carlton 1985; Wonham 2000 -
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Main article: Eel life history Much of the European eel’s life history was a mystery for centuries, as fishermen never caught anything they could identify as a young eel. Unlike many other migrating fish, eels begin their lifecycle in the ocean and spend most of their lives in fresh water, returning to the ocean to spawn and then die. In the early 1900s, Danish researcher Johannes Schmidt identified the Sargasso Sea as the most likely spawning grounds for European eels.[3] The larvae (leptoceph
