This year, the run was so strong that the fishermen maxed out their quota in just two weeks. They were still heading up the pamaquid river to wherever they wanted to live and grow up. It is one of the easiest fisheries afar as you don't have to gas up a boat or bait a trap. So it's really just about wave position, you net. Can also tell by looking at em, like if they're, if they're fat enough, they, you know, get little rolls cause their bodies are so plump.
Where eels come from is a surprisingly difficult question to answer, in large part because scientists have never actually seen them reproduce in the wild. Gastropod explains why eels are somehow still so mysterious.
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