{"id":52193,"date":"2021-11-02T19:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=52193"},"modified":"2021-11-02T19:52:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:52:38","slug":"glass-eels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/11\/glass-eels\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass eels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the great Sargasso Sea<\/p>\n<p>each larvae spawns and possibly we<\/p>\n<p>see them drifting on ocean currents<\/p>\n<p>for a year or two they be<\/p>\n<p>as they approach the EU shores<\/p>\n<p>they all metamorphise<\/p>\n<p>into transparent tiny eels<\/p>\n<p>swimming like the clappers<\/p>\n<p>into estuaries, \u00a0surprise<\/p>\n<p>growing into elvers<\/p>\n<p>migrating up stream<\/p>\n<p>taking decades to grow larger<\/p>\n<p>under their own steam<\/p>\n<p>Migrate back to the ocean<\/p>\n<p>but they are in steep decline<\/p>\n<p>not helped by dams not helped by weirs<\/p>\n<p>Their futures \u00a0on the line<\/p>\n<p>Hydropower and pollution too<\/p>\n<p>Loss of wetlands, illegal fishing<\/p>\n<p>smuggling \u00a0what we do.?<\/p>\n<p>criminality! the Far East<\/p>\n<p>Japan and China<\/p>\n<p>the gorging beast.<\/p>\n<p>corruption and venality<\/p>\n<p>roguery and rascality<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the great Sargasso Sea each larvae spawns and possibly we see them drifting on ocean currents for a year or two they be as they approach the EU shores they all metamorphise into transparent tiny eels swimming like the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/11\/glass-eels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,173,251,387,470],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-china-food-obscenity","category-eels-or-fingerlings","category-smuggling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52196,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52193\/revisions\/52196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}