The fisheries of the Bann and of Lough Neagh ( especially for salmon and eels ) are of value both commercially and to sportsmen, the small town of Toome, at the outflow of the river, being the centre.

Although Belgian gastronomy is connected to French cuisine, some recipes were reputedly invented there as e. g. French-fried potatoes ( despite the name ), stoofkarbonnaden ( or carbonade flamande in French, a beef stew with beer, mustard and bay laurel ), speculaas ( a sort of cinnamon and ginger-flavoured cookie ), Brussels waffles ( and their variant, Belgian waffles ), waterzooi ( a broth made with chicken or fish, cream and vegetables ), endive with bechamel sauce, Brussels sprouts, Belgian pralines ( Belgium has some of the most renowned chocolate houses ), charcuterie ( deli meats ) and Paling in't groen ( river eels in a sauce of green herbs ).

The river is stocked with brown trout, and also contains wild grayling, eels, stone loach, minnow, three-spined Stickleback and flounder.

The ramp also enables young eels or elvers to move up the river, and provides habitat for stone loach and bullheads.

Where, in passing, Shakespeare discusses snakes and crocodiles forming from the mud of the Nile (), Izaak Walton again raises the question of the origin of eels " as rats and mice, and many other living creatures, are bred in Egypt, by the sun's heat when it shines upon the overflowing of the river ...".

Below Leatherhead the river has historically supported larger predatory fish including chub, perch, pike, and eels, however in recent years chub and eel numbers have begun to decline.

The most remarkable catadromous fishes are freshwater eels of genus Anguilla, whose larvae drift from swawning grounds in the Sargasso sea, sometimes for months or years, before entering freshwater river and streams as glass eels or elvers ( see eel life history ).

Electric eels inhabit fresh waters of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, the basins in South America, in river floodplains, swamps, creeks and coastal plains.

In a famous early explosion at Greenwich in 1803, one of Trevithick's high-pressure stationary engines exploded when the boy trained to operate the engine left it to catch eels in the river, without first releasing the safety valve from its working load.

The name of the river from which this town derives its name is of Russian origin ( угри, meaning eels ) because there used to be a lot of eels in the river Ogre.

Such power dams, however, have all but eliminated american eels from the river ; these were once an abundant source of food for aboriginal populations, as well as providing a source of food for herons and otters, among other animals.

In the aftermath of the poisoning eels as large as 8. 2 kg and trout as large as 2. 3 kg were washed up dead along the banks of the river.

The river is home to a wide variety of fish and reptiles, including enormous catfish weighing up to and measuring up to in length, electric eels, piranhas, turtles, and caimans.

The Darug had a close relationship with the river, from which they caught fish, eels, and other food.

The river supports a range of wildlife ; the predominant fish species include salmon, sea trout, brown trout, eels, minnows, sticklebacks and the Stone Loach.

On 2 May 2001, two conger eels were found on the shore of the loch ; as conger eels are saltwater animals and Loch Ness is freshwater, it is believed that they were put there to be seen as " Mini-Nessies ".

By this definition, the Cypriniformes were paraphyletic, so recently the orders Gonorhynchiformes, Characiformes ( characins and allies ), and Gymnotiformes ( knifefishes and electric eels ) have been separated out to form their own monophyletic orders.

Waves that day were almost 5 m high, ( up to 15 ft ), water temperature was 21 ° C ( 65 ° F ) and lamprey eels were attacking her legs and arms.

Its assets were: 4 hides ; 1 church, 5 ploughs, 1 fishery worth 1000 eels and 1000 lampreys, of meadow.

Baskets were placed along the dam and locks and tremendous amounts of fish and eels were easily caught.

Aristotle claimed that eels were lacking in sex and lacking milt, spawn and the passages for either.

Its name is said to mean " island of eels ", a reference to the creatures that were often caught in the local rivers for food.

It was reported that elvers and small yellow eels are prey of largemouth bass and striped bass, although they were not a major parts of these predators ' diet.

Until 1893, larval eels — transparent, leaflike two-inch ( five cm ) creatures of the open ocean — were considered a separate species, Leptocephalus brevirostris ( from the Greek leptocephalus meaning " thin-or flat-head ").

First it was believed European and American eels were the same species due to their similar appearance and behavior, but research has shown that they differ in chromosome count and various molecular genetic markers, and in the number of vertebrae, Anguilla anguilla counting 110 to 119 and Anguilla rostrata 103 to 110.

These parameters were shown to give the highest mean specific growth rate of these eels.

The electric eels ( lowercase " e " s in reference to e e cummings ) were a punk rock band active between 1972 and 1975.

The electric eels were formed by John Morton ( guitar ), Dave " E " McManus ( vocals, clarinet ), and Brian McMahon ( guitar ; not to be confused with Slint member ), all ex-pupils of Lakewood High School, Lakewood, Ohio, in 1972.

As many as 5000 eels were landed in a typical year.

European eels were one of the few forms of fish that could survive in the heavily polluted River Thames and London's other rivers at this time, and so placed in pastry crust became a common worker's meal.

Not only were shell fish available from the sea, but the many swamps and creeks in the district would have yielded birds, fish, eels, eggs and snakes.

The major differences between the two zones were the low abundance or absence of diadromous migratory fish ( except eels ) and the greater abundance of short-finned eel and trout in the upper catchment, and the greater abundance of Australian smelt, congoli and long-finned eel below Snowy Falls.

:" Rape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes, or hard objects, and rape followed by murder ; electric shock (' the Bell Telephone Hour ') rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue ; the ' water treatment '; the ' airplane ' in which the prisoner's arms were tied behind the back, and the rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the prisoner in midair, after which he or she was beaten ; beatings with rubber hoses and whips ; the use of police dogs to maul prisoners.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees Martin IV in Purgatory, where the reader is reminded of the former pontiff's fondness for Lake Bolsena eels and Vernaccia wine.

Near the end of its course, it creates a wide delta ( with hundreds of small channels and five main ones, called Po di Maestra, Po della Pila, Po delle Tolle, Po di Gnocca and Po di Goro ) at the southern part of which is Comacchio, an area famous for eels.

Lake Copais itself was famous in all Greece for its eels, celebrated by the hero of The Acharnians.

Striped bass will take a number of live and fresh baits including bunker, clams, eels, sandworms, herring, bloodworms, mackerel, and shad, with the last being an excellent bait for freshwater fishing.

According to Gary Presland Aborigines have lived in Victoria for about 40, 000 years, living a semi-nomadic existence of fishing, hunting and gathering, and farming eels.

Sea urchins are some of the favorite foods of sea otters, and are also the main source of nutrition for wolf eels.

It was a center for catching and smoking eels for market.

The Indian name for Eeltown is unknown, but the whites named it for the plentiful eels that could be found in the waters of Lycoming Creek.

It was notable in Saxon and early Norman times for the large numbers of fish and eels found there.

It paid 4000 eels yearly in Lent to Peterborough Abbey for access to its quarries of Barnack limestone.

Paphlagonian is a monstrous giant ( 74-9 ), a snoring sorcerer ( 103 ), a mountain torrent ( 137 ), a hook-footed eagle ( 197 ), garlic pickle ( 199 ), a mud-stirrer ( 306 ), a fisherman watching for shoals of fish ( 313 ), a butchered pig ( 375-81 ), a bee browsing blooms of corruption ( 403 ), a dog-headed ape ( 416 ), a storm by sea and land ( 430-40 ), a giant hurling crags ( 626-29 ), a storm surge at sea ( 691-93 ), a thieving nurse ( 716-18 ), a fishermen hunting eels ( 864-67 ), a boiling pot ( 919-22 ), a lion fighting gnats ( 1037-8 ), a dogfox ( 1067 ), a beggar ( 182-3 ) and finally a sausage seller in the city gates ( 1397 ).

Tribal fishermen set weirs across the rapids, and then waited and watched for fish, including salmon, alewives, sturgeon, and eels.

A sniggle is a type of fish hook used for catching eels ( known as snigs ), using the method of sniggling.

On the island of Lundy the number has decreased dramatically in recent years ( the 2005 breeding population was estimated to be only two or three pairs ) as a consequence of depredations by black rats ( recently eliminated ) and possibly also as a result of commercial fishing for sand eels, the puffins ' principal prey.

The lake has 17 species of fish, such as minnows, salmon, chubs, eels, and pike, and there are areas for duck hunting.

Electric eels are capable of varying the intensity of the electrical discharge, using lower discharges for " hunting " and higher intensities for stunning prey, or defending themselves.