A French court on Thursday sentenced eight people to up to five years for smuggling eel larvae destined for Asian markets, in ...

You might be unwittingly contributing to eel exploitation, as almost all unagi products sold in Singapore were found to be ...

Close to 100 per cent of the 257 items analysed had genetic traces of threatened freshwater eel species. Read more at ...

Tamil short-tail congers live on the “sandy bottom of shallow waters” and are “carnivores, mostly (feeding) on small crustaceans and fishes,” study co-author T. T. Ajith Kumar told McClatchy News via ...

The government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has now refused the company an export licence, ...

Sure enough, researchers realized they’d discovered a new species: Ariosoma tamilicum, or the Tamil short-tail conger. Tamil short-tail conger eels have “stout” bodies reaching up to 12 ...

THOOTHUKUDI: Scientists of ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR) discovered a new eel species called Ariosoma tamilicum off the Thoothukudi coast. The Thoothukudi fishermen during ...

Intrigued, they took a closer look at the animals and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Ophichthus cuulongensis, or Mekong’s estuary snake eel. An Ophichthus cuulongensis ...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said it will make an announcement on eel export licences shortly. A spokesperson for the government department said: "We have robust ...

Researchers at the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR), functioning under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), have discovered a new species of Congrid eel and named ...