According to the study, at its peak the eel aggregation increased to approximately 2.8 million individuals, or between 3,547 ...

The electric eel gets its name from its shocking abilities! Special organs in the eel’s body release powerful electric ...

Eels have fascinated humans for thousands of years, even captivating big thinkers like Aristotle and Freud. Despite having been around for some 200 million years, eels are still rather mysterious ...

This 30-kilogram predator hunts mostly at night, ambushing prey before swallowing it whole with its specially adapted jaws.

The world's top wildlife trade body voted Thursday to effectively ban all international trade in the critically endangered oceanic whitetip shark but rejected a proposal to protect more species of eel ...

As artificial breeding of Anguilla spp. is not yet commercially viable, all eels consumed today are wild origin, primarily juvenile glass eels (eel fry) caught and raised in aquaculture. Eel farming ...

The EU fisheries ministers have for the first time agreed for a temporary closure of 3 months in 2018 for the European eel fisheries in all EU waters, including the Baltic Sea. While WWF regards this ...

Appropriate fishery management requires an understanding of the target species' stock dynamics. However, in the Northern Hemisphere, illegal trade and IUU (Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated) ...

Research led by Hiromi Shiraishi, researcher at Chuo University, has revealed that, in addition to Japanese Eel (Anguilla japonica), American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) is now widely distributed in ...