At the eel farm, hundreds of baby eels squirm toward a meal specially concocted to make them grow fat and healthy

Eel farm crop
Title: Coast watch
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/coastwatch00uncs_0/#page/n122/mode/1up
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coast_watch_(1979)_(20665923441).jpg

The European eel or common eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a species of eel, a snake-like, catadromous fish. The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of 19 species in their genus, found in the Northern Atlantic south to Mauritius, the Mediterranean, North and Baltic Seas and the rivers that feed into these ocean bodies.