Freshwater eels such as the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) undertake great migrations from fresh water to spawn in the marine waters of the Sargasso Sea (catadromous migrations), where they die.
Joining as associate members were the Turks and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands (1991), Anguilla (1998), and the Cayman Islands (2002).
Also of note in the North Atlantic are the huge masses of gulfweed (Sargassum natans) in the Sargasso Sea, which support large communities of crustaceans and fish normally associated with coastal regions and which are the spawning grounds for the American and European freshwater eels of the genus Anguilla.
And the American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) is rapidly losing numbers, largely down to the lucrative Japanese fish market's pursuit of an alternative to the endangered Japanese eel.
Reach Anguilla (on LIAT) via Antigua (as before) Don't confuse the two sides of Frigate Bay, St Kitts' best known beach.
There are 14: Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Cyprus); Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Falkland Islandsds; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn Islands; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Turks and Caicos Islands.
In 2010 and 2011 in Anguilla and Guyana, a combined total of more than $1m was booked as unspecified "bonuses".
A MINUSCULE British territory in the Caribbean of just 15,000 people, Anguilla is among the smallest of the 209 members of FIFA, football's governing body.
In 2010 Mr Blatter went to Anguilla to inaugurate this.
But that is not for want of nurturing by "the FIFA family", as Sepp Blatter, FIFA's president, calls his discredited organisation.On top of the annual $250,000 for investment in football that FIFA gives Anguilla, like every other member, in 2003 the local federation received grants of $650,000 to build a training centre in The Valley, the island's capital.
Instead of help from The Hague, he favours selling the government-owned oil refinery on the island, currently operated by Venezuela's state oil company.Two years after Anguilla, and coincidentally on May 30th, Curaçao had its own uprising.
