Out on eel patrol to find the poachers

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3123, 2017, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Wilson talks about the European eels. European eels spend most of their lives lurking in muddy rivers. At about 10 years old, they swim thousands of kilometers to the Sargasso Sea in the western Atlantic Ocean. There they spawn--and die. Their tiny offspring then make the opposite journey. The Gulf Stream sweeps them to the mouths of European rivers and during the big spring tides the elvers, each about the size of an earthworm, come swarming up the waterways.