| 1 | The adult eels then die there. | |
| 2 | Despite living in different waters, all eels spawn in the sea. | |
| 3 | What with one thing and another, everybody forgot all about the eels in the urn. | |
| 4 | Yet such criticism does little to diminish the profound story of eels he conveyed, which still appears to be true. | |
| 5 | Eels are slaughtered at a processing shop in a Tokyo suburb that sells the butchered fish to retailers across the country. |