PLYMOUTH – Move over herring; American eels are making a seasonal run as the wiggly darlings of local rivers and streams. The slippery fish have been making their way up Town Brook this month in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists are closer to unraveling the long-standing mystery of how tiny glass eel larvae, which begin their lives as hatchlings in the Sargasso Sea, know when and where to 'hop off' the Gulf Stream ...

A new study has found that European glass eels use their magnetic sense to 'imprint' a memory of the direction of water currents in the estuary where they become juveniles. A new study led by ...

European eels use an electromagnetic “sixth sense” to navigate during their long migration, two new studies propose. The electrical “shadow” of a new moon may help eels cross the continental shelf of ...