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Consumed worldwide, eel is particularly popular in Asia, and perhaps nowhere more so than Japan, where remains found in tombs show it has been eaten on the ...

Few animals have sparked humanity’s curiosity as much as the eel (Anguilla anguilla). Until a recent past, this slimy, slippery, snake-shaped, incredibly agile fish inhabited virtually every body of ...

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THE time of spawning and the differences between the sexes of the common eel has been hitherto unknown. Last year for the first time in this country eels (Anguilla bostoniensis) containing eggs were ...