In this video, we attempt to use live eel as bait for big lingcod, but things don't go as planned. Key equipment featured ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fishermen in the U.S.'s only commercial-scale fishing industry for valuable baby eels once again had a productive season searching for the tiny fish. Baby eels, called elvers, ...

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 ...

FILE - Baby eels swim in a tank after being caught in the Penobscot River in Brewer, Maine, May 15, 2021. The regulatory Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission decided Wednesday, May 1, 2024, ...

PORTLAND, Maine — They're wriggly, they're gross and they're worth more than $2,000 a pound. And soon, fishermen might be able to catch thousands of pounds of them for years to come. Baby eels, also ...

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation ES. All 19 species of Anguillid eels migrate from the sea, where they are born, to the ...