Eels aren’t every angler’s favourite, but they are one of the few fish in our waters that still hold a genuine sense of mystery. Not only that, but when they reach specimen sizes, they can be ...

All 19 species of Anguillid eels migrate from the sea, where they are born, to the freshwater systems in which they grow. After a period of up to 20 years, they reach maturity and return to the sea to ...

Lough Neagh fishermen have said that pollution "cannot be allowed" to bring an end to eel fishing in the lough. Brown eel fishing will not resume in the area this year due to environmental changes.

Reporting from Ellsworth, Maine — It is just past midnight, rain clouds stalking a full moon, and Julie Keene is out on a muddy riverbank in thigh-high rubber boots and a camouflage jacket, a headlamp ...

Fishermen who harvest one of the most valuable marine species in the U.S. hoped for permission to catch more baby eels next year, but regulators said Monday the tight restrictions that have been in ...

The European Eel is a critically endangered fish species with a dramatic decline the past 30 years, less than 5% is left of the stock. Conservation efforts have so far failed to deliver and scientific ...

The American eel fishery has historically focused on mature eels (as shown here), which are exported around the world. But these days, there’s more money to be made from juveniles. Photo by Darren ...

In the Ebro River delta, the fishing of elver (an eel, Anguilla anguilla) leads to the accidental capture of other fish species, with the capture of one ton of elver possibly resulting in the capture ...