Free Fishing at Norrie Point May 15; Eel Research at Marist College

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A young boy in a green teeshirt holds up a fishing pole with a white perch he caught.Free Fishing Clinic at Norrie Point May 15

Want to try your hand at fishing in the Hudson?

Join our family-friendly, free, angling program on May 15th, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. at the Norrie Point Environmental Center, Mills Norrie State Park in Staatsburg, NY. All equipment is provided—no license required. Angling is wheelchair accessible, and adaptive fishing rods are available. This program is sponsored by DEC's I Fish NY. For more information, contact the Hudson River Research Reserve at 845-889-4745 x109.

5 young women in brown waders gather around a net looking for glass eels.American Eel Research at Marist College

Twice a week, several Marist College students majoring in sciences head down to the Fall Kill in Poughkeepsie to collect glass eels, juvenile American eels, which migrate into Hudson tributaries each spring. The students bring 20 eels back to the Marist College lab and carefully measure their weights, lengths, and level of pigmentation. The study provides clues on the timing of migration, the eels’ access to resources in the estuary, and how and when eels develop. The research is based on protocols of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission which is monitoring this species coast wide.

Four students gather around two microscopes in a science lab.This is the 12th year of the American Eel Research Project, managed by DEC’s Hudson River Estuary Program and Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve to gather data to guide management plans for eel conservation. Eel collection takes place at 15 sites daily from mid-March through mid-May.