Trafficking of juvenile ‘glass’ eels from Europe to Asia generates up to €3bn a year but the species is on the brink of ...

Scientists have identified two new species of electric eel and one of them is the most powerful yet. Electrophorus Voltai lives in the Amazon rainforest and can produce up to 860 volts of electricity.

The secretariat of a treaty regulating international trade of endangered species says it recommends adopting a proposal to put all eel species under global restrictions.

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese eel, a popular summertime delicacy that has become prohibitively expensive due to overfishing, has been put on the international conservation “red list” in a move that may ...

Professor Kenzo Kaifu and Research Fellow Hiromi Shiraishi of Chuo University, together with Professor Yu-Shan Han of National Taiwan University, conducted the world's first quantitative study to ...

FLORIDA, USA — Multiple agencies are urging Floridians to report sightings of an invasive Asian swamp eel species. In a news release shared with First Coast News on Wednesday, the University of ...