Despite living in different waters, all eels spawn in the sea.
尽管生活在不同的水域，所有的鳗鱼都在海里产卵。
Nobody knows how they do it with such accuracy, or why eels spawn where they do.
没有人知道它们如何做到那么准确，或是鳗鱼为什么要在大海里产卵。
Even humpback whales prefer to use the right side of their jaws to scrape sand eels from the ocean floor.
即使是座头鲸也喜欢用它们的右颚从海底刮沙鳗鱼。
Electric eels are long and usually gray-brown in color.
电鳗很长，通常为灰褐色。
Nor does anyone know how to breed eels in captivity.
也没有人知道如何人工饲养繁殖鳗鱼。
Year-old "glass" eels hole up in Maine's Pemaquid River.
一岁大的“玻璃”鳗鱼躲藏在缅因州的佩马奎德河里。
Freshwater eels, of the genus Anguilla, are ancient fishes.
鳗鲡属淡水鳗鱼是古鱼类。
It's almost like Poseidon is trying to keep the eels secret.
好像海神波塞冬在努力保守鳗鱼的秘密似的。
The tall grasses undulated like eels under the north wind.
长高的野草在寒风中象鳗鲡似的蠕蠕游动。
Young eels have been seen climbing moss-covered vertical walls.
人们曾经看到爬上苔藓覆盖的垂直墙壁的小鳗鱼。
To get where eels are spawning, it's statistically very low probability.
从统计上来说，要找到鳗鱼产卵的地点概率非常低。
Once the eels arrive, the females lay their eggs and the males fertilize them.
一旦这些鳗鱼抵达了目的地，雌鳗鱼就会产卵而雄鳗鱼就会给它们授精。
Like cod, eels used to be so plentiful that nobody believed they could be in trouble.
和鳕鱼一样，鳗鱼曾经是那么丰富，没有人相信它们会有麻烦。
Industrial eel farms buy baby eels and raise them for gourmands in Japan and elsewhere.
工业鳗鱼养殖场会买来小鳗鱼，饲养它们以作为日本和其他地方的美食。
Nineteen years later Tsukamoto and Miller are still searching the oceans for spawning eels.
十九年后，塜本胜巳和米勒仍在海洋中研究产卵的鳗鱼。
Populations of American, European, and Japanese eels are all declining, some precipitously.
美国、欧洲和日本鳗鱼的种群都在直线减少。
All the fish I smoke, trout and salmon, are farm raised, except the eels. The eels are wild.
我熏制的鳟鱼和鲑鱼等所有的鱼都是人工饲养的，只有鳗鱼是野生的。
In general, female eels are found upstream in river systems, while males stay in the estuaries.
一般而言，我们能在上游水系找到雌性鳗鱼，而雄性鳗鱼则呆在河口。
The Japanese believe eels boost energy and cool the blood in summer; local stocks are in decline.
日本人相信鳗鱼能提高精力，还能在夏天降温。 不过，当地鳗鱼储量正在下降。
New Zealand's longfin eels are giants, some topping six feet and 80 pounds, that can live for decades.
新西兰长鳍鳗鱼是巨人，有一些长达六英尺（约1.83米）重达80磅（约36.29公斤），能活几十年。
The eyes of eels grow larger for their final journey to their spawning grounds, enhancing their vision.
为奔向它们的产孵地而开始最后的旅行时，鳗鱼的眼睛会变大，提高了它们的视野。
Eeling in the U.S. is heavily regulated; Maine is one of the few states allowing the export of glass eels.
在美国捕捞鳗鱼受到严格监管。缅因州是少有的几个获准出口玻璃鳗鱼的州之一。
Schmidt asserted that eels must spawn in the southwestern part of the North Atlantic, in the Sargasso Sea.
施密特断言，鳗鱼一定是在北大西洋西南部马尾藻海产卵。
Was it possible that eels living in the creeks of Denmark spawned way out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
生活在丹麦溪水中的鳗鱼有没有可能在大西洋中部产卵？
The eels above were captured near Baja, California in 1961. Years later they were found to be a new species.
上图中的这些花园鳗（Garden Eels）是1961年在加州的巴扎（Baja）附近捕获的，几年之后，生物学家们发现它们属于一类新物种。
Although not a new species, scientists had never before seen such a large gathering of the deep-sea eels, Priede said.
虽然这不是一个新物种，但是科学家以前从未见过这么大一群深海鳗鱼聚集在一起，Priede说道。
In New Zealand it's common for cats to bring eels to the doorsteps of farmhouses, having caught them in grassy paddocks.
在新西兰，猫在长满青草的围场抓住鳗鱼，再带到农场门阶处的情景司空见惯。
Now, with climate change, another potential disaster looms: shifts in ocean currents that may confound eels during their migrations.
如今，随着气候变化，又隐现出另一种潜在的危险：洋流移位有可能迷惑迁移中鳗鱼。
Turner hot smokes his eels and sells them to passersby, as well as to restaurants and retailers, earning him up to $20, 000 a year.
特纳热熏鳗鱼，然后卖给过路人以及餐馆和零售商，每年能挣两万美元。
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