Where European eels start and end their lives was long a mystery, but an audacious expedition has finally revealed the last details of their incredible migration
RIGHT now, millions of sinuous, silvery fish are swimming determinedly across the Atlantic Ocean. They are snake-like, more than a metre long and have huge, bulbous eyes. They left their homes in Europe in late autumn and have been navigating westwards ever since, often swimming against the currents that once carried them the other way. They travel alone at a languid pace, never stopping to rest. By night they are near the surface; by day in the depths. Their journey will take more than a year.
This is the ultimate goal, and fate, of the European eel , a remarkable and enigmatic species that has nourished the human imagination, and belly, for millennia. Their life cycle is fascinating and their final journey, the details of which have only recently been discovered, is jaw-dropping. “This is a species which is
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