At this time of year the eel is “in the mood”according to pumping station manager Pim Hoogendoorn. “They want to spawn, so they move to the sea.” Because eels have a very specific location preference for sex. They only do it in a very specific place in the Sargasso Sea, near Mexico. Where exactly they do it there still remains a big mystery to scientists.
Fishermen in Vinkeveen help eels to sea: ‘They are in the mood’
