PLYMOUTH – Move over, herring; American eels are making a seasonal run as the wiggly darlings of local rivers and streams. The slippery and mysterious fish have been making their way up Town Brook ...
Scientists in Japan who noticed a drastic shift in glass eel migration patterns sounded the alarm on an underlying issue. As reported by The Japan Times earlier this month, researchers from the Japan ...
The Sarah Lawrence Center for Urban River at Beczak in Yonkers is looking for volunteers to once again track the migration of glass eels swimming through the Hudson River. From now until May, ...
NEW BALTIMORE — What’s transparent, a couple of inches long and can scale a 100-foot structure? Why, a glass eel, of course. The state Department of Environmental Conservation is trying to estimate ...
On a misty-gray afternoon in May, four people wade into the Hudson River. They have come to check a large fyke net that catches small creatures. It looks like an open tent with a big tunnel attached ...
The unusual life cycle of the long-finned eel could turn out to be a valuable pollution monitoring tool, Australian researchers have found. The ear bones of the eels, like those of other fish, show ...
Eighth-graders on Staten Island spent their free time this past spring counting — thousands of eels! Dozens of nature-minded middle-schoolers waded into Richmond Creek with nets in hand to scoop out ...