For perhaps a tenth of what they probably spent on lawsuits, the enviroweenies could have built an eel habitat, either there at Pier 55 and the other lower Manhattan attractions like Little Italy, Greenwich Village, Chinatown and the Ground Zero Memorial, or upstream away from the dirty filthy lower Manhattan; and then they could have built and endowed an eel nature museum and sold tickets to it. They could have paid for programs for schoolchildren to come visit the eel colony and stand on the lucite bridge over the eel breeding grounds to observe. They could have formed scholarship trips to the eel museum for kids in minority school districts. But nooooo. They are so damned smart, smart enough to resettle millions of illegals, but not smart enought to resettle a frkn eel habitat.
ProRegressives don't build things ("You didn't build that eel preserve!") They just destroy things.