Surprised Eel Historian, PhD on Nostr: Starting around 1000 CE, the English began building lots of mill dams, and this ...
Starting around 1000 CE, the English began building lots of mill dams, and this blocked the migration pathways of lots of fish! Oh no!
They began eating far fewer freshwater fish like salmon, & evidence shows a marked shift to eating marine fish. It's a big of enough thing to get an awesome name:
The Fish Even Horizon
But eels can live out of water for a while, & travel overland if need be. So they could migrate around or over medieval dams.
And so the English kept eating eels. 'Cause eels!
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