didn't ever spawn
The "adult" eel we kill by the hundreds over the course of the fishing season have never spawned. Born in the Sargasso, make it to shore off of the Stream as elvers, move to fresh water, live for 5, 10, 15, leave to go back to the Sargasso. Those eels spawn only once in the Sargasso Sea and die. There in lies the shortage problem.
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