The baby eels are carried by strong currents to the northeast coast of North America, where they mature in brackish estuaries. The elvers, or “glass eels” due to their transparent bodies, are caught ...

Each spring, fishermen set nets in Maine’s rivers to fish for the state’s most valuable catch. No, not the iconic lobster, but tiny glass eels that fetch wholesale prices topping $2,000 per pound.

KAMPONG PHLUK, Cambodia (AP) — Em Phat, 53, studies his eel tanks with the intensity of a man gambling with his livelihood. For millennia, fishermen like him have relied on the bounty of the Tonle Sap ...

Ottawa is allowing a bigger harvest for juvenile eels this year in a fiercely contested fishery, but a New Brunswick businesswoman says it will do little to restore what she’s ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Eels are the stuff of nightmares — slimy, snakelike creatures that lay millions of eggs before dying so their offspring can return home to rivers and streams. They've existed ...

BBC Eye and DOCDAYS investigate this global trade from the rivers of the UK to Haiti, Poland and Russia. We’re in the UK ...