Eel lanes’ being created in South Downs rivers to assist 4,000-mile migration - The European eel travels from breeding ...

Nov. 2—MASSENA — Researchers have begun a five-month study to see if light can be used to guide eels into collection points so they can be captured and transported around hydropower dams. The ...

When the eels swim into the Hudson, they have translucent bodies, earning them the name “glass eels.” Their transparency, Mount said, is a helpful adaptation from their time in the ocean.

Nearly 23,000 glass eels have been released into a chalk stream for a research project to see if their numbers can be increased. The eels, originally from the River Severn, have been put in at ...

MIDDLETOWN — An account of the American eels’ abundance in a major tributary to the Hudson River from the early 1800s follows attempts to drain wetlands around the Wallkill River in Orange County.

Each spring small, transparent (and surprisingly cute) baby eels make their way up the Hudson River. Student scientists are there to count them. Aurora Simone, 13, and Emanuel Ntone Edjabe, 12 ...

The current record dates back to June 23, 1987, after an angler, Ralph B. Westerman, landed a 4.44 pound American eel in the Kansas River.

It’s a rare find in the river, said Gary Smith, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s Area 8 fisheries manager. The elongated fish with small fins likely swam from the Allegheny River to ...

In 2021, the Conowingo Dam’s elevator on the Susquehanna River captured by far the most eels in its 14-year history — over 600,000, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The eel Cooper caught had to make its way across Pennsylvania via rivers and streams to end up in the Allegheny River. Cooper estimated the eel she caught at 30 inches.