This is a mispronunciation, the correct pronunciation is [ mán yú ].

Eel, also known as white eel, white eel, river eel, eel, creek slide, green eel, Japanese eel. Eel is a general term for species belonging to the classification under the order Eels. Also known as an eel, it is a fish with an appearance similar to that of a long snake, and has the basic characteristics of a fish. In addition, eels have migratory characteristics similar to salmon. The eel is a fish that resembles a snake, but has no scales, and is generally found in waters where salt and fresh water meet.

Morphological features

The eel's young is about 6 centimeters long and weighs 0.1 grams, but its head is narrow and its body is high, thin and transparent like a leaf, so it is called a "willow leaf fish". Its body fluids are almost the same as those of seawater, so it can drift long distances with ocean currents with little effort.

It takes about half a year to drift back to the Kuroshio current from the spawning grounds and then back to Taiwan's coast, and it is only a month before it reaches the shore that it begins to metamorphose into the long, slender, transparent eel threads that are also known as the glassfish. That's why fishermen are busy catching eel threads that are about to go back to the river with hand nets on the coast near the estuary from December to January every year and sell them to the farmers. After they are bought and stocked by the farmers, the color of the eels slowly appears, and they become yellow juvenile eels and silver-colored adult eels.