Lou, why do you say they would be unfertilized females?
They would be unfertilized because the eggs are laid at sea and then fertilized. It is possible, I suppose, that a two-foot eel could be male, but I understand that this would be about the maximum for male American eels, while females grow much larger. In addition, neither male nor female eels get all that large in the South.
I could easily be wrong for, as noted before, I am no expert. But, last night I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express.
Lou
