Eel fishers hoping for less slippery year

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Eels a slippery catch to regulate

The UK's most slippery export

The Enigma of the Eel: The Elusive Science of Earth's Most Mysterious Creature – The Marginalian

Slippery eel slides towards disaster

Journalist Richard Schweid first learned the strange facts of the freshwater eel's life from a fisherman in a small Spanish town just south of Valencia. The eeler who explained the animal's life cycle to me did so as he served up an eel he had just taken from a trap, killed, cleaned, and cooked in olive oil in an earthenware dish, writes Schweid. I ate it with a chunk of fresh, crusty bread. It was delicious.