The Eel Life Cycle
- Life Phase Age Interval Duration Example Event(s)
- PLANKTON
- Zygote Conception a few seconds Recombination
- Larva I 0-2 days 2 days Development
- METAMORPHOSIS
- Larva II 2 weeks-3 years 3 years migrates across entire
- (glass eel) Atlantic ocean
- METAMORPHOSIS
- Pre-Adult 3-4 or 3-10 years 3-17 years Growth
- Adult 4+ or 10+ years ɚ years migrates back
- across
- Atlantic, spawns