Talk:Eel

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The Monognathus are of order Saccopharyngiformes, not true eels. (130.58.239.123 (talk) 05:19, 26 March 2013 (UTC))[reply]

umm, this article was apparently written by a "foody" or a fisherman. It would be nice if a bioligist wrote it.

I agree, but then again the foodies and fishermen might be wishing us biologists would keep out of their articles ^^'

Can we lose this part about electric eels? Its problematic because electric eels aren't even eels, and it doesn't seem to add much. I think a brief note linking to electric eels might be nice though...69.2.241.27 15:15, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Much of this article has been merged from the Eel story article. While written mostly by an expert (User:Kils is an oceanographer), this needs a thorough work-over. (See also Talk:Eel story.)

1. It needs more references.
2. Grammar check and improvements
3. The video is linked twice, once in the intro and once further down.
4. The "How to catch" section should go, HOMO.

Just as an example, let's take the following paragraph (my comments are in italics):

He—like Schmidt—kept on trying to persuade sponsors to give again. (give what? money, supposedly, but this sentence doesn't parse.) His proposal was to release 50 Silver Eels from Danish waters with probes that would detach from the eels each second day, float up and broadcast position, depth and temperature to satellite receivers, possibly jointly with an equivalent release experiment from the countries of the western coast of the Atlantic (I suppose that means the U.S., and maybe Canada? And was that experiment carried out or not?) So today our knowledge on the fate of the eels once they leave the continental shelf is based on three eels found in the stomachs of deep sea fish, a whale caught off Ireland and off the Azores and some experiments on fife eels.(Oh yeah? Sources desperately needed.)

Lupo 07:28, 27 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Another point: We have doubled interwiki links, some going to the equivalent of Eel, and some going to Anguilliformes, which here on en: is a redirect to Eel. Some reorganization seems in order. Lupo 07:32, 27 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I un-merged Eel story as there wasn't much point in an article that was obviously going nowhere and posted as needing cleanup. The former eel story is now at the title it probably should have always had, eel reproduction. This article needs to decide if it is going to be about all of the Anguilliformes, or about the Anguillidae. That decision - what do we mean when we say "eel" - needs to be made first, then we are in a position to start improving things. Notice that the failed merge was very clearly from an Anguillidae-only position. Tannin 10:08, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I sent the article to eel experts - got some nice responses - will work that in soon Uwe Kils 02:01, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Garden eel?

Hello. I understand that this article uses the families listed at FishBase, but what of the placement of families into sub-orders - can anyone give a reference for that? Fish base doesn't seem to cover sub-orders? ThanksHappyVR 15:27, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing it's from ITIS but that site seems to be impossible to access the last few days or so.HappyVR 15:30, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We have captured an eel in a river in Nepal and made a photograph of it. We wonder whether this colorful fish is a well known species. Quiet a large beast too! Where can we publish the photograph (i.e.submit it) for classification?

(Yeroldyeti (talk) 09:34, 28 June 2008 (UTC))[reply]

The food section really sucked in terms of wording, so I've fixed it a bit and also added a reference to the famous jellied eels. --JonAyling 21:39, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The far left fish in the Japanese breakfast picture is NOT eel, but is mackerel. Moreover, the statement that eel is a common component of Japanese breakfast is very suspicious. --Cazooto 11 November 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.95.5 (talk) 21:52, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to add that eel is really common here in Zhejiang province in China. For example, I can buy 3ft live freshwater eels for less than $2 apiece (12 ¥). They like to stick their heads out of the water, and when I'm at the supermarket I like to stop by the meat section to watch them swim. I can also order eel at many local restaurants just within a one mile radius. Many poor people catch eels in the rice paddies, so the meat is cheap. The eels burrow holes in the earth and live there for shelter. An old woman once tried to get me to buy her live eels that she had in a big bowl. I don't even know what I would do if I had a live eel. I suppose keep it as a pet, and silently hate it because I would be afraid of it. I would purposefully not feed it much, and then it would silently hate me back. In any case, I hope you understand more now about eels in China, and the human-eel dynamic here. Tengu800 (talk) 13:38, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think a source is actually needed for the statement that in Korea eel is considered good for male stamina. It's a completely uncontroversial statement, because in Korea, fucking everything is considered good for male stamina.68.148.87.48 (talk) 06:09, 16 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Blood is toxic... Reference 23 seems to misquote the source which is talking about an eel serum derived from blood. Eel blood is toxic unless fully cooked. This seems to indicate the digestive process also neutralizes the toxins, but that is appearently only true of the serum. 205.197.242.153 (talk) 03:49, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It seems a little misleading to say that Unadon is "rather expensive". It is slightly more expensive, but not as much as a rare delicacy like fugu. When I've been in restaurants in Tokyo, I recall that Unadon was perhaps 1300 yen, whereas gyudon might be 950 yen. So it was like $11 versus $8. I would substitute "slightly more expensive" or "somewhat more expensive". "Rather expensive" sounds like it's priced like a delicacy eaten only rarely. Most Japanese could eat Unadon several times a week if they wanted to. It's only a few more bucks each lunch. Westwind273 11:46, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I've removed the paragraph relating to Mythbusters which offers nothing of real information to this article and replaced it with a more relevent info regarding Electric Eels. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacobsdad (talk • contribs) 08:59, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Are these animals called eels or true eels? If they are called eels and true is meant to distinguish from misnomer electric eels, we should not bold-face or refer so often to them as true eels. Cheers, — sligocki (talk) 19:22, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've read that eels don't develope testicles unless they need them, but this was on internet sites, and without references. Is this true? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.46.45.150 (talk) 07:38, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The cited reconstructed forms need to be updated. No laryngeals to be seen, but instead there are long consonants – that's been out of date for over half a century. Check out Illuyanka for a start. David Marjanović (talk) 14:26, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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There are some genera in the diagram that are not eels, e.g. Pterothrissus, the Japanese gissu. They don't belong in this article at all. Grassynoel (talk) 23:39, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just made the change from "all eels aer marine" to "most eels are marine" because there are quite a few exceptions which are also listed after the statement, making it not legitimately absolute. HolyCrocsEmperor (talk) 07:34, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Link #44 as of 30 Jan 2024 is dead --

"Greenpeace Seafood Red list". Greenpeace International.

Suggest this current URL --

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/oceans/sustainable-seafood/red-list-fish/

57.135.233.22 (talk) 04:21, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That link doesn't support what is being said. It has 22 types of fish on the US red list and doesn't include eels. Greenpeace has different lists for different countries, but it's hard to find them. Here is an archive of the Canadian list, but again no eels. The few alternative sources with the claim they were added to the Greenpeace red list seem to be using wikipedia as a source. I don't doubt the information but can't find a linkable source. —  Jts1882 | talk  10:31, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]