Click here for "When Did We Have Sauerkraut?" by the Berrymans. Don't you think you should eat the eels as soon as you get them home? Keeping them in the refrigerator would probably spoil the flavor, dontchathink?
When I lived in Berlin in the early 1970's, you could buy live eels at the open-air markets that seemed to be in every neighborhood. The merchant would fish one out for you and rap its head on the counter to stun it. Then he'd wrap it in brown paper so you could tuck the eel under your arm and take it home. Can't say I know what people did with them once they got the eels home, but the process of purchasing was sure interesting to watch.

-Joe Offer-