The Life Cycle of the Eli

This was in the beginning of the twentieth century. Johanna schmidt went out on the ocean with a boat, and he was going to find the bert place of the eel. And that says something about science, but also about this human urge to understand what makes a man sail around the atlantic ocean for 18 years looking for el larva just to know where the eel is born. There's still so much that we don't know. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how time figures in the lifecycle of the eli. Mean, how they might be in a european or american pond for 50 years, then something triggers them, and