Eels being mashed by hydrodam turbines en route to spawn

It’s a tough life, being an eel – and even tougher when your route back to spawn in the Pacific Islands is blocked by massive turbines which can mince you up like a blender. Waikato fisherman Erin Tindale reckons we should be doing more for eels that survive their Odyssey-like journey from Tonga to New Zealand and back again, and joins us to explain how and why.

Eels being mashed by hydrodam turbines en route to spawn
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