Case in point, according to a report in Nature, the breeding ground for the critically-endangered European eel was found in 2022, confirming that it is in the Sargasso Sea as originally suspected.

The Sargasso Sea Commission notes that endangered species of eels go to the sea to breed, while whales – most notably sperm and humpbacks – migrate through it, as do tuna and other types of fish.

They live in the pond across the street from my house, but guess where they—and every other American eel—were born? In a warm womb a few thousand miles away called the Sargasso Sea.

In biology class we were told that the eels we caught in creeks and ponds had emerged from eggs suspended in the ocean, specifically the Sargasso Sea, the southwestern part of the clockwise gyre ...

The Environment Agency's Fisheries Enforcement Officers have started patrols along the coast to help protect the endangered ...

Hatched from eggs laid in the floating seaweed masses of the Sargasso Sea, the larvae drift up the Gulf Stream. At the continental shelf, they become glass eels (transparent, as the name implies ...

Where did eel go? Where do eel come from, cotton-eel-joe. Did you know that the humble eel, that lives in rivers in the UK, comes all the way from the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda? It’s pretty wild stuff ...

The migratory eel makes its way out from the Baltic Sea to the Sargasso Sea to spawn in the autumn. In the absence of a complete fishery closure it is important that the fishing ban is applied in the ...

The Environment Agency’s Fisheries Enforcement Officers have started patrols along the Morecambe Bay and North Lancashire coastlines to ...

“Many scientists call the Sargasso Sea a nursery in the open ocean ... sea turtles that swim there after hatching, but also eels, shrimp, crabs, mahi mahi, and marlins. Despite the animated ...