Talk:Eel life history

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hallo user:Tannin! thank you for your nice comment with the eel story - I would very much appreciate your help in editing, as I come from Germany and my English is lousy - you will like our project with LEO, judging on your background - we put up the project mainly for our cooperations with high schools, where the students build "eel ladders" for the baby eels to climb over dams into the US - that is really fun

best greetings

Uwe

User:Suggestion Article titled "eel life history" lacks life history of eels besides one species? Maybe a general life history scheme should be included, one pertinent to any (or most) species of eel. Article is a plethora of random eel information upon quick examination.

Kils 17:17 28 May 2003 (UTC)


 * Uh, could we have some background on the "eel story" thing ie: where the story originates from and where it is popular because at the moment it just looks like some crazy thing someone just made up and put at the end of the article. --86.130.149.218 20:42, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * hallo 86.130.149.218 - this is not "made up", it is just an amazing story, like for the fragile leptocephalus to travel in three years from the USA to Danmark, etc. and it is a sad story because of the drastic decline, in some places to zero - we are expanding the story and will add refs soon - why don't you help ;-) (Oceanographer) Uwe Kils [[Image:heringmini.jpg]] 21:11, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

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Minor Grammar...
In the opening sentence, should it read Eel reproduction instead of reproduction of the eel?

Also as an English speaker I don't like the aggregate word 'glasseel'. It just looks wrong and I cant find it any dictionary or reference. I could accept glass-eel but perhaps the phrase glass eel could be italicised.TheMathemagician (talk) 22:11, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Peer Review
Maybe this article could be submitted to peer review, not necessarily prior to a submission at FAC, but for constructive comments. Who knows, maybe in time it is FA material. Phoenix2 18:47, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Stocking?
Neither this article nor the commercial site I was just looking at explains just what is meant by "stocking" or "restocking" -- if it's self-explanatory to Europeans or to eel-lovers I'm afraid it's not to me. I would guess that it has to do with replenishing aquaculture tanks....? &mdash; Catherine\talk 03:07, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) so whaz up are u fine there???


 * they release glasseels caught at the ocean into lakes and upstrem rivers Uwe Kils [[Image:heringmini.jpg]] 03:14, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * here is some info http://www.outdooralabama.com/education/publications/FNAStocking.cfm
 * It's also a common term for raising fish in controlled settings and then releasing them to the wild, usually for fishing purposes. Carter 09:28, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The "Eels of Atlantis" section (obsolete - section removed)
Does that section really belong here?

From what I can tell, everything else in the article is correct and based on research, so why include something fictional at the end, with little scientific value other than being a fun little story?

Merge
Should this article be merged with the general "eel" article?


 * absolutely! and the American/European eel pages need to be repatriated also, there should be no such thing as a eel life history page, especially one that has more general eel content than the actual eel pages...

The Suruga Seamount
If anyone's interested, or fancies bunging in a geographical stub for it, there's info on the Suruga seamount, where Japanese eels spawn, here:

http://www.iho.shom.fr/COMMITTEES/GEBCO/SCUFN/SCUFN19/SCUFN19-06.1P_Suruga_Smt.pdf

Including a copy of Tsukamoto's communication to Nature, and a rather nice 3D picture.

-- Tom Anderson 2006-08-17

Spawning
I am a little confused by the following:


 * "Whether the adults can ever make the 6,000 km (4,000 mile) open ocean journey back to their spawning grounds north of the Antilles, Haiti, and Puerto Rico remains unknown."

How is there any "spawning" if the adults don't make it back? Surely the adults must make it back, or else there would be no new young eels produced to continue the species? Or is the case that only a proportion of eels migrate, and some grow to be adults in the spawning area, these being the only ones that reproduce? Needs clarifying I think.

Title of article too general?
Perhaps the title of this article should be more specific, as there are many types of eel, and really this is only talking about a few of them?

Spawning Clairification
I absolutely agree with the previous comment 'Spawning' Can someone explain how, if it is doubtful whether adult eels can make it back, how do the eels spawn?

Aristotle
I read once that Aristotle actually believed the eels were born out of the depths of the sea. The earthworm theory was simply his way to get revenge when he got no eels during a party. He started describing it to the more lucky guests. Omeganian (talk) 08:57, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Deli food
Can anyone clarify what is meant by the statement that glass eels are used as deli-food? Orlando098 (talk) 06:33, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

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Glass Eel should not redirect here
Glass Eels are a specific species. If no page exists it doesn't make sense to redirect here. I was looking for information on glass eels specifically not general eel life history! Xanikk999 (talk) 21:39, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

If you read the article, you'll learn that glass eels are one of five life stages for the eel, and not a separate species as was once believed. Critterkeeper (talk) 02:30, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Mystery of actual reproduction
I came here after reading an article about how some parts of the eel life cycle remain a mystery even today. Here's the link in case anyone else finds it worthy of using as a reference here. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/25/where-do-eels-come-from If it's accurate, then I think making it a little more clear what we *don't* know would be appropriate! Critterkeeper (talk) 02:34, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Broken link preview
I was doing some other editing to the article and I noticed the link preview for eelpout in the intro section is broken. I'm having trouble finding a solution or anywhere online that talks about how to fix it. I'm fairly new to editing on wikipedia so I've never encountered this problem before but I'd love to fix it! If you know how to fix I'd love to know so I can take care of it if it ever happens again. (: Isopodsoup (talk) 14:44, 29 April 2021 (UTC)