Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
New analysis of
ocean currents may solve eel mystery.
The eel is a
mysterious marine creature in terms of its delicacy and life habits.
In many parts of
Europe, eels are a popular dish, smoke, fried or boiled particularly at
Christmas, while in Japan, they are often eaten broiled or steamed and broiled
with special soy-source in summer time.
However recently,
their populations both in Europe and Asia have been declining, making the
market price sky high and conservationists deeply worried.
They migrate in
somewhere in deep sea, and the new born baby eels, called elvers, travel several
thousand kilometers back to their “originated rivers” were they are going to
live for the next 20 years or so before traveling back to their “born seas” to
migrate.
How they find
those never-been-before places miles and miles away has been and still is an unanswered
mystery to scientists and fishermen.
Enjoy reading and
learning about this now endangered marine species.
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