<Oh! The second search term > clicked on is "eel killed on the ranch."

It's a ranch in Canterbury, New Zealand's South Island, where dead eels have covered the ranch to pitch black.

A nearby stream, the migration route for spawning eels, flooded at high tide and washed up on the ranch.



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Despite efforts to return the eels, thousands of them had dried up and died on the ground.

The ranch owner complained that this happened because the seawall on the sea side was broken, and that a year earlier, a water crisis had caused him to ask the authorities to repair the seawall, but he had not acted on it.

Local authorities who inspected the site said, "This is a natural phenomenon caused by freshwater eels migrating to the sea at this time of year," and that "we do not manage coastal erosion or repair facilities for private land."

Visitors responded, "Only the seagulls will feast while handing over responsibility," "Is it nature's providence that eels dry up on the ground?" and "Since we don't eat eel, we would have a feast in Korea."

(Image source: RNZ·1news)