blessmycottonsocks
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They use aerieels.
Puns like that ought to be eelegal.
They use aerieels.
Yeah... they find their way over there using eelectricity!Really? Does anyone have any idea how they locate it?
I don't know. Must be a similar mechanism that allows salmon to find precise spots to spawn. Homing and other navigational instincts are both fascinating and largely a mystery.
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-la...ea-fish-was-just-filmed-near-a-mining-hotspotBefore we start mining for precious metals in the darkness of the deep sea, we might try switching on the light first and observing our surroundings.
In this seemingly isolated abyss, at deeper than 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) below sea level, scientists were able to coax a massive swarm of 115 cutthroat eels (Ilyophis arx) out of the shadows and into the light, and with only a relatively small package of bait.
When you're swimmin' in the creek
Used to catch morays (muraena helena) by handline when I were a lad in Cyprus, a yard long and speckled like a leopard, they are NOT even tempered creatures and they are well armed...When you're swimmin' in the creek
And an eel nips your cheek
That's a moray"
Full report on Nature.com
Eel specialist at the Environment Agency, Dan Hayter, has been monitoring eels in the River Blackwater in Essex for 20 years and has seen a drastic decline over that time.
"We do catch eels here every single year," he explained. "Compared with the historic numbers, they're very low now, and there's been a 95% decline since the 1980s."
Eels arrive around the European coast as tiny, fragile and transparent glass eels, having drifted across the Atlantic for two or three years from the Sargasso Sea.
They adapt to freshwater and mature in rivers - growing up to 1m long - until they are ready to swim all the way back to reproduce once and die.
Until now, it has been very difficult to study their migration across the ocean; previous studies have tracked adult eels all the way to the Azores, but from there the trail went cold.
The researchers have now tagged adult eels in the Azores, showing they can swim all the way to the Sargasso Sea.
"We knew they could get as far as the Azores, but that final leg was just undiscovered country," said Ros Wright.
Jason regularly posts fishing stories with photos of some unusual creatures mixed with more commonly known. And about the latest mystery creature he wrote: "Check out this huge eel caught in Pitwater NSW. I've never seen anything like it. It's not a Pike eel , or a Silver eel. The teeth look like some kind of Morey eel. But the face is very blunt. It was about 9 foot long. Interesting..."
Looks a lot like a Moray Eel.