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Sam Newman

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Thanks Sam, we used to live in Umawera, but unfortunately work is scarce, not to mention that basic services are all but nonexistent. Okaihau is about as far north as I'd like to be.

Ummm, not that I'm arguing with you or anything but according to that NZ eel website, the average weight for the NZ longfin eel is 24kgs and they live to about 34 years for the females....120yrs just seems a bit out there....

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That's a good link Ant, ties in well with the chapter in Stella's book that I have just been reading... they are cool animals, would never have thought eels were so cool... migrating out to pacific ocean once, breeding and dieing... always amazes me when you find stuff like this out.

So like most NZ Native species (fish, birds, mammals etc) they are slow breeding, which means they are at more risk than exotics...

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