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toast0yesterday at 6:30 AM1 replyview on HN

They are raised on fish farms, from capture to prime eating conditions, but eel spawning is mysterious and at least Wikipedia suggests eel reproduction is not currently reproducable in captivity.


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brightbeigeyesterday at 11:33 AM

There is a pretty fascinating New Yorker article which summarizes the “Book of Eels”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/25/where-do-eels-...