Er!: eel anyone?

摘要

The 1 December 2013 edition of the Sunday Times featured an article entitled 'Starkers, sinuous and gutsy and that's just her eel'. It provided a photograph of the 45 year old ex X-Files actress Gillian Anderson, naked, but hiding her 'altogether now' with a dead conger eel (Conger conger) draped around her shoulders. Intrigued, I read on. Apparently, the actress is a supporter of the charity Fishlove and the conger eel is threatened with extirpation, if not extinction, by fishing activities. Now, I did not know this and so am grateful to Gillian not just for her picture but also for the information that has allowed me to examine this topic more closely.