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Where?
Sargasso Sea
What, every eel in the world?
First line even before the main article
Summarized: Key Takeaways
- The Sargasso Sea is the breeding ground for all freshwater eels, where they travel thousands of miles to spawn and then die.
Am I missing something? How is it a freshwater eel if they’re in the sea?oh damn they migrate to the sea before reproduction
Confusing when you think of freshwater fish that can’t survive in saltwater. So then i’m guessing the baby eels just spread back out to freshwater sources
Tbf salmon do the same thing
shit that’s right
OMG this came to mind:
In the ocean?
Underwater at least; there are fresh water eels.
That makes sense. It’s relatively warm; there’s a bunch of seaweed, and the waters are calm.
Edit: Wait, how was this a mystery?
“The 1920–1922 Dana expeditions, led by Johannes Schmidt, determined that the European eel’s breeding sites were in the Sargasso Sea.”
for anyone curious it got its name from the seaweed that grows there https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargassum
Hank Green can tell you the full mystery:
https://youtu.be/acEIGorImGs?si=_xi2IF-GEssAuyZ-
tl:dw: We knew that’s where baby eels came from but we didn’t know how the adults got there or what the larvae looked like. Baby eel larvae was misidentified as another species and adult eel can take up to 18 months traveling at the bottom of the ocean to get there, during which time they grow their gonads which was another mystery.
