Jan 20, 2024 · European eels are born in the Sargasso Sea. The larvae move with the currents across the Atlantic, where they transform into rounded juvenile 'glass eels' off the Irish coast in autumn.

Irish eels are highly prized for their freshness, their tender yet firm flesh, and their nutritional qualities! Irish eels usually migrate from the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic as elvers to Lough Neagh, a major Irish river, where they are raised in an environmentally friendly way.

Oct 29, 2022 · Ireland was one of four countries in an EU-funded project that, beginning in 2006, released more than 700 silver eels, fitted with pop-up satellite tags, to estuaries from Sweden to Spain. Among...

Nov 19, 2016 · Instead of a century-old assumption that eels swim at high speed to meet up in the Sargasso Sea for a single, springtime orgy, it seems some are quite happy to take their time and may even arrive...

Jan 1, 2013 · Like other indigenous fish host species, eels in Ireland are infested by more parasite species than more-recently introduced fish. Irish eel parasite communities include host-specific specialists and generalist forms that are typically noted in recent additions to the island’s freshwater fish fauna.

Eels are one of Ireland's most long-lived fish: many live to more than 25 years of age, and eels aged up to 50 years old have been recorded by the Eel Monitoring Programme.

The European eel is an amazing creature. Found in the rivers of the North Atlantic, Baltic and Mediterranean Seas, it has a fascinating life-cycle that involves an incredible two-way migration across the Atlantic ocean.

Feb 8, 2023 · We now know that the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) travels the breadth of the Atlantic Ocean twice during its life, spawning on the far side of the Atlantic, though scientists are still just...

Eel are common throughout Ireland, and found in almost every lough, lake, river, canal and land drain. At one time they were a major source of income for commercial fishermen on several of our larger waterways, but time (and man-kind) hasn’t been kind to this ancient species.

The famous eels of Lough Neagh [the largest freshwater lake in the UK and Ireland] are thought to have been first eaten by locals as far back as the Bronze Age and have been a staple catch of the area’s fishermen for many centuries.