Eels

A UK-based trader has been sentenced to a suspended two year prison sentence having been found guilty of smuggling around 5.3 million European eels from Spain, through the UK and on to East Asia.

European eel stocks have been increasing at “a statistically significant rate” since 2011, according to an independent report published today.

On the day that Eels: Biology, Monitoring, Management, Culture and Exploitation, is launched, The Fish Site caught up with Paul Coulson, who co-edited the book with Andy Don, to find out more about the enduring appeal of…

Plans to establish a $30 million eel farm in Detroit have been unveiled by Aqua Vida Aquaculture.

Four new aquaculture books are scheduled to be published by 5m, The Fish Site’s parent company, in the year ahead.

Joost Blom, BioMar’s resident eel feed expert, sheds some light on the challenges that need to be overcome to ensure a sustainable increase in farming one of the planet’s most mysterious fish

BioMar has decided to increase its output of feed for a range of juvenile fish and those grown in recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS), by adding a new line to its aquafeed factory in Denmark.

Work on a new 37-acre plant that will produce 200,000 tonnes of Calystas FeedKind protein for the aquafeed industry began this week.

CANADA - Enterra Feed Corporation has received approval from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to sell its Whole Dried Black Soldier Fly Larvae as a feed ingredient for salmonids, including farmed salmon, trout …

NETHERLANDS - Wageningen University is planning to further expand its eel research in 2017.

SWEDEN - Deficiency of vitamin B1 (thiamine) in wildlife is previously known as a problem among certain species within relatively limited geographical areas. Now, researchers at Stockholm University, together with severa…

DENMARK - Rearing European eels in captivity throughout their life cycle in a complex task, hampered by our lack of knowledge about several phases of their life cycle. Recently published research has been exploring the c…

INDIA - Scientists from Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered at least two new species of eel fish, within last ten months, from the Bay of Bengal along the West Bengal coast, writes Basudev Mahapatra.

NETHERLANDS - People who eat a lot of eel from polluted rivers in the Netherlands have high levels of dioxin- and PCB-like substances in their systems. This finding comes from a study by PhD researcher Myrthe van den Dun…

US - New research has revealed that eels do make leaping attacks out of the water. This discovery confirms a 200-year-old story by Alexander von Humboldt.

This World Fish Migration Day, the importance of maintaining healthy and connected rivers and streams for species that occupy both fresh and marine waters is being highlighted across the globe. Together with scientifical…

DENMARK - For the first time, it has been shown that eels from the Mediterranean Sea are able find their way through the Strait of Gibraltar to the Atlantic and potentially reach the Sargasso Sea to spawn along with eels…

UK - New research has found that overfished species of tuna and eel are among the sushi dishes being served up without adequate labelling information to consumers.

MALAYSIA - The Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) and Kinki University, Japan have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to establish UMS-Kinki University Aquaculture Development Centre in Malaysia for the joint developmen…

JAPAN - Kinki University has attracted much attention for becoming the first in the world to produce farmed bluefin tuna, but recently it has also succeeded in producing something else - catfish that tastes like eel. Bon…