mrchaotica t1_ish7923 wrote on October 15, 2022 at 11:29 PM

Reply to comment by ChaBoiFletch in Almost 100 years since being initially proposed, the location of adult European eels' breeding place (upon their 5-10,000 km migration across the Atlantic Ocean) has been demonstrated directly as the Sargasso Sea for the first time. by Litvi

> There was a theory that they came from the area in the ocean where the currents carry all the garbage that makes it’s way into the water. Unsure where that is in relation to the Sargasso Sea.

Exactly the same place, because sargassum is carried by currents the same way the garbage is.

ChaBoiFletch t1_isif7ef wrote on October 16, 2022 at 5:50 AM

Interesting, I was just about hoping this was the case. Now to figure out the effects that the garbage has had on the eel ecosystem.