Eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked.
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Examples for "common eel "
Examples for "common eel "
1 Examples: common eels and electric eels.
1 But Japan's appetite for Anguilla japonica -Japanese freshwater eel -has come at a price.
2 The company stopped fishing for longfinned freshwater eel last fishing season despite having an iwi entitlement to do so.
3 An iwi-owned company that has shelved its entitlement to fish for long-finned freshwater eel says other iwi may follow its lead.
4 Freshwater eels were rare even on the broader Illinois River, and Mike had never seen one before.
5 One of the great mysteries of nature is where temperate freshwater eels , including our very own longfin eels, go to breed.
6 And in Indonesia, for 10 days, I was given dried freshwater eels to eat which had the texture of bacon rind dipped in diesel oil.
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Translations for freshwater eel