The journey to death; asian swamp eel fate in a non‒native habitat

Abstract

The Asian swamp eel was first introduced into the Hawaiian Islands in 1900,5 and in 1990, it was introduced to different ponds near Atlanta and Georgia, within the Chattahoochee River drainage basin.6 In 1993, there are two more populations of the eel have been discovered; one outside of Tampa, Florida, and one in southern Georgia near the Chattahoochee River.7 In 1997, eel was collected in the southeast and in west‒ central of Florida.8 It has been reported that the introduction of Asian swamp eel into Georgia as an aquarium release, and to Florida it might be because aquarium release, escape from fish farm or release of from the life fish market.9