A creature of mystery: New Zealand’s love-hate relationship with eels
(Source: Sustainable Eel Group/The Guardian) For many years, the top-rated attraction in the Tasman district of New Zealand was a cafe famed for its rural setting, seafood chowder – and tame eels.For a few dollars you could buy a pottle of mince and a wooden stick to take down to the stream, where a blue-black mass was shining, writhing, waiting…