"Originally when I was very small, about 60 millimetres long, they called me a Leptocephalus because I looked like a leaf. Nobody really knows where my birthplace is but I believe it is near Tonga." replied Tuna.
"As I approached the Christchurch coastline in spring, I changed and became a glass eel."

"I have never heard of Tonga" said Pakura "I will look it up."

Watch the glass eels approaching the Christchurch coastline.

Click on a wetland in Canterbury to see what happens to these glass eels.

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