Meaning & use
elver
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A young eel, especially one migrating from the sea into fresh water.
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Each spring, elvers swim upstream from the ocean into rivers and estuaries.
Elver fishing is tightly regulated because the young eels are valuable and slow to reproduce.
A note on using this word
Elvers are eels in an early life stage, after the transparent larval stage but before reaching full adult size.
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