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European Eel
This migratory fish – despite its snake-like appearance, it is merely a fish– can grow up to one and a half metres long, but those are exceptional specimens and usually they are no more than a metre long. They have been used a food sources for many years, forming the basis of London’s famous jellied eels, and also being caught while very young and translucent – a stage when they are called ‘glass eels’ – for food. They have also suffered serious depredation of their natural habitats with the damming of rivers and so on, which prevent the eels from migrating to their birthplaces to breed in their own turn, even though the wiggly creatures can travel over land.
