And did they get up and go requisition a new winter cape after the stewed eel?
My father pronounced it raw-eel, like a thing you eat with your eyes closed.
The eel population was no longer sustainable, despite having been recently granted protected geographical indication status, he said.
It is believed numbers have dropped to 5% of historic European eel stocks.
But spirits rose when an American eel, presumed dead, was discovered days later splashing around an employee shower stall.
Mr Swann also drew attention to the plight of the Lough Neagh eel.
Ask him to check on a favorite like yellowtail, eel or tuna and the answer is the same: Skip it.
The food, too, is a souped-up version of traditional mountain cuisine, complete with rural treats such as eel or frog.
The clause was invoked most memorably for Eric "the Eel" Moussambani, a swimmer from Equatorial Guinea, in the 2000 Olympics.
However, he added that eel grasses, which are found in saltier waters lower in the bay, need clear, cooler waters.
One stall sells small fried sole, another eel, its neighbour a ginger and date sweet and short glasses of ginger tisane.
But the overall eel population is not in danger of extinction (though some individual species are), so the authorities decline to protect them.
Last year, the FDA slapped a countrywide alert on all Chinese eel after tests showed residues of an antimicrobial agent, she said.
Workers yell, slice blocks of ice, haul massive bluefin tuna, spit, stop for a smoke, laugh, bone an eel and yell some more.
According to experts, the reason behind the eel's decline largely remains a mystery due to the difficulty in tracking the fish during its migration.
Eat lunch at Konoba Roki's ( rokis.hr), a rural retreat owned by a local winemaker, where specialties include smoked eel and octopus under peka.
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If they had snacks in front of the television, it wasn't chips or candy, it was rice crackers or dried bonito and smoked eel.
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Once a year, the eel-dealers go to the market temple to pray for continued good sight, and to ask forgiveness of the eel spirits.
Some exceptional species are sensitive to ultrasound, while others such as the European eel, a freshwater species that spawns at sea, are sensitive to infrasound.
The AquAdvantage salmon, reared from the eggs of wild Atlantic salmon, sports some extra genes from the Pacific Chinook salmon and an eel, the ocean pout.
This East End fish shop dishes out haddock, plaice and rock eel, among other white fish, in a restaurant with Formica tables and a 1950s jukebox.
Later in the day, the restaurant and its two other locations specializes in steaks (grass-fed British beef) and local seafood such as smoked mackerel, salmon and even eel.
The antirejection drugs made Eric a little paranoid, but he recovered nicely on hospital dinners of "stewed shredded eel, " and the elated couple returned home in April.
The spawning habits of the eel is the exact opposite of the other migratory river users - the salmon and the sea-trout which migrate upstream to spawn.
Thomas Karinos has found some work in a local eel farm, but the family, like so many, now rely in part on their small plot of land.
In 11 years of research he has collected anguilline myths, lore and recipes from all over the world, with particular emphasis on eel-worshipping in New Zealand and Polynesia.
Hu and his team wanted to create the ultimate fish: Aiming to emulate the speed of tuna, acceleration of a pike, and the navigating skills of an eel.
The report said stocks of cod, sand eel and anchovy remained below sustainable limits, but recommended an increase of about 75% in the quota of Norwegian spring spawning herring.
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Restoration work, such as reconstructing salt marshes near the island of Burano and sand dunes at Cavallino, and planting eel grass all over the place, is part of the solution.
Environmentalists fret that removing dams could increase the risk of flooding and allow invasive fish including the sea lamprey, an eel-like fish with a menacing mouth that attacks other fish to breach the river's tributaries.
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