Week 5 Term 1 2015
This week Mrs Finucane showed us an article from the news about long finned eels. We didn't know very much about these very special eels but after watching the piece we now know lots more, and are finding out other facts all the time. Here are some of our stories...
Long finned eels can live for over 100 years.
They live in holes in the river and under rocks. They
like to swim around.
If the council doesn’t look after the rivers and the
drains and the lakes then they might die and there will be none left.
Blayze
Long finned eels live in ponds and rivers. They are only
found in New Zealand.
The old eels swim to Tonga to lay eggs so they can have
babies. After they lay their eggs they die.
It takes them 5 and a half months to swim there.
The babies swim back to New Zealand and back to the
same places.
We need to look to look after them because they are
rare.
Charlie
Long finned eels need fresh water to stay alive. They
can live for 100 years. They only live
in New Zealand.
Eels are rare. Things can eat them or catch them or
where they live can be destroyed. People feed them to make them big to sell to
shops for food.
Eels look like spaghetti when they are swimming out to
the sea. When they are ready to have babies they swim all the way to Tonga and
they lay eggs. Then the adults die and the babies swim back to New Zealand.
Jayson
The long finned eels swim to Tonga to have babies. The
adult eels die and the baby eels swim all the way back to New Zealand.
Then they turn into adult eels and the same thing
happens again.
Eels need to live in drains , lakes, rivers and in
fresh water.
The council thought they were doing the right
thing but they weren’t. They thought the
eels had gone when the lake dried up but they hadn’t. The digger managed to
kill lots of them but there was one alive. A lady rescued it
and put it in a river and she hoped it survived but we don’t know if it did.
Eels are rare and we can’t eat too many of them in
restaurants or wreck their habitats.
Jake
Long finned eels stay in fresh water like lakes and
ponds. They can’t stay in the sun because they will dry out and they will
die.
Adult eels go to Tonga to lay their eggs. After they
lay the eggs they die. The baby eels grow and then they swim from Tonga to New
Zealand.
I have eels at my house, where the big grass is, and it
is a river. I can see the eels swimming and trying to hide.
Malcolm
