Research led by Hiromi Shiraishi, researcher at Chuo University, has revealed that, in addition to Japanese eel (Anguilla ...

Highly endangered European baby eels are being poached in Europe and smuggled to Asia, where they're grown out in fish farms and sold back to Japan, Europe and North America – labeled only as ...

Japanese eels have found an ingenious way to escape a fish's stomach after being swallowed — backing up the digestive tract then squeezing themselves out of the predator's gills. In a scientific ...

Despite intensive research, much about the American eel’s lifecycle remains unknown. What we do know is that these eels spend ...

You have no doubt heard the phrase slippery as an eel and a new study looking at baby Japanese eels specifically has revealed just how true that is. The skilled escape was captured via x-ray video ...

Fishing for shinko, which are baby ikanago sand eels, began in the Harima-nada Sea in Hyogo Prefecture on March 12. Shinko, about 6 centimeters in length, were landed, and eight baskets each ...

Baby eels, also known as elvers, are incredibly valuable, fetching over $2,000 per pound, primarily due to their importance in Japanese cuisine. Harvested mainly in Maine using nets in rivers and ...

A Japanese research team said Tuesday that glass eels, also known as baby Japanese eels, are believed to have increased in rivers in Hokkaido in recent years because of an ocean current moving ...

American Unagi recently wrapped up construction on a $10 million, 27,000-square-foot facility to expand production of American eel to more than 500,000 pounds a year (or about 2 million eels).

Baby eels, called elvers, are often worth more than $2,000 per pound because of how valuable they are to Asian aquaculture companies. That makes them one of the most valuable fish species in the U.S.

Japan's government and businesses involved in eel farming are set to launch a trial of a traceability system designed to prevent the poaching of baby eels.

Watch baby Japanese eel escape from stomach of predator in X-ray video. News. By Melissa Hobson published 11 September 2024 ... The team discovered that juvenile Japanese eels ...