Tomelia Sail & Canvas fabricated fyke nets for the NYSDEC Eel Research project. https://hrnerr.org/eel-monitoring/
What are “fyke nets”? They are large nets set in the mouths of tributaries for six to eight weeks each spring, catching the juvenile eels as they migrate upstream. Each net is checked daily by volunteers who count and weigh the eels, and then release them back into the stream.