conger eel

(also ‘conger’; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”, and the letter ‘g’ is said with a ‘g’ sound as in “gun” — for the pronunciation, please click here)

a kind of fish – belongs to eels – a general name used for a kind of fish with a large flat head, long narrow body without scales but covered with a slimy substance, like thick oil on their gray-blue or gray-black skin; the fins are all joined to form a continuous fin without breaks in between; several species grows to 7 to 10 feet in length and weighs 50-70 Kg. (only females reach this  length and weight, the male are relatively small – maximum 3 feet); feeds on other small fish, crabs, cuttle fish, squid and octopus; lives for 10-12 years; 8 species (kinds) (?) found in the rocky shallow waters, hunting at nights on the bottom, of the North Atlantic Ocean – Iceland to N. Africa, and the Mediterranean Sea; and from South Africa to the Caribbean islands

Special Features:

conger eel as food eaten by people

Conger eels are a food source; but they are more favoured as game fish, for angling.

These eels go long distances to lay eggs; both male and female eels go to a far away coast from where they normally live and spawn (lay eggs) and then die immediately!

They lay eggs only once in their life but lay millions of them.

The larvae swim back all the way to where their parents lived, and keep growing all through the way, and when it is their turn to lay eggs, they swim back to the place where they were born, like salmon fish!!