[SIZE="3"]Mysterious spawning site of eels located[/SIZE]
Crisscross >Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 07:03 EST[floatl]
[/floatl]TOKYO --Japanese researchers have partly resolved the longtime mystery of the spawning site of Japanese eels by pinpointing a location in the Pacific Ocean west of the Mariana Islands, according to an article published in the British science journal Nature on Thursday.
The discovery of tiny transparent larvae from the Japanese eel in the Philippine Sea indicates that the eels migrate thousands of kilometers out into the ocean to spawn, before returning to the coasts of East Asia, according to a research team led by Katsumi Tsukamoto, a professor at the University of Tokyo's Ocean Research Institute.
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