Regina Barber
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first heard Nov 2024
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And for our listeners who may not know, because I didn't know before this episode, aquaculture is just breeding and raising eels in captivity.
Yeah.
Okay, so scientists now know that European eels go to spawn somewhere in the Sargasso Sea, but they don't know exactly where.
What are the current efforts to solve this mystery?
Okay.
What are some of the hypotheses like, though?
What are they hoping to find?
Because they still haven't found the carcasses, right?
Yeah, so you work on eel reproduction in the lab, among other species.
What have you learned by studying them in the lab?
Right, because then you'd have a source of food that isn't the wild population.
So have you been able to raise glass eels from eggs in the lab?
Going back to the search for eel spawning grounds, what would it mean if scientists did find them, other than solving this centuries-old mystery?
You've been studying eels for decades.
What draws you to these animals?
What's the Holy Grail for you then?
Like, what would you love to learn about eels?
Yeah, like what triggers them?
It should be mythical forever.
Arjan, thank you so much for talking to me about eels.
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