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Today this woman called Stephanie bowman was coming to tell GreyTown School to talk to us about the long fin eel we listen to the story they told us about them and what they do before they have eggs and the eggs hatch and all the stuff too do about baby's and there we were sitting on the floor listening to all the great stuff to with them so please protect them and stop HUNTING PLEASE. if you are reading this and your a hunter and you think that we should stop hunting make a difference and stop hunting the eels cause if we can make a difference you can make one too.

growth: When eels begin life, they are only tiny. They are only one millimeter in length. During their life, they can grow up to two meters long. The largest long fin eels said have weighed as much as 40 kg. The long finned ell is the biggest long fin eels used to appear mostly in streams and lakes. But now you will find an eel heavier than 10 kg. this has mean some of our very large eels have now disappeared because of all the pollution in our rivers and streams and the hunting eels by man

shape: what kind of shape do you think eels are? eels have a roundish head and a long fat chubby body with long fins that why name is called the long fin eel and thats what they have been named after for many centuries.

food: Eels eat "live" food. Small long fin eels living amongst they will feed on insect larvae, worms and water snails. When they get bigger, they begin to eat on fish. They will also eat fresh-water crayfish and even ducklings hunting while the day goes on the eels are secretive, hiding under logs and big rocks or under riverbanks. sometimes, they may be seen out hunting for food but most of their hunting takes place at night.

life: The largest eels in the world and it is found only in the rivers and lakes of New Zealand. Long fin eels are considered At risk, declining.

Appearance: <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">While they have the sight of tiny scales are embedded deeply within their thick, leathery skin. The eel’s skin is very sensitive to touch. This helps it to "see" in its watery environment. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In colour, long fins are usually dark brown to grey black. Very occasionally, long fin eels found in the wild are partially or even wholly bright yellow in colour. The maori name for long fin eels are tuna. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">breeding <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">breeding takes part any time they breed in toranga NewZealand they swim 500 miles to get to toranga to breed they lay over 40 eggs witch is a lot. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">eels on the move <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">the only thing that will stop eels moving will be hydration damps why can’t they get through hydration damps because they are thin and slimy and they just slip off. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">how fast do eels move <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">20mph that is really fast compared to us humans <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">long fin eel <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Are long fin eels endangered <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">yes long fin eels are endangered that mans that they have been hunted for there meat so there are not many of them because they have been hunted do by man for many years. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">were do long fin eels come from <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">They were first found in NewZealand <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">when do a male and female die <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">A male long fin eel dies at 34 year of age in human years that is not very old a female dies at the age of 23 that is not very old in human age ether <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The largest eel <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">the largest eel can grown up to 1.75 meters in hight