Conte Wildlife and Fish Reservation, explained to students that while here in the Connecticut River, American eels fulfill a critical function in the food web by transporting freshwater mussels.

DANVILLE — Six American eels swam in Mahoning Creek on Thursday ... About 100 middle school students, including science classes, watched the fish being released from a blue and white cooler.

The American eel, Whiteduck said, is a sacred fish with "spiritual significance for us." "We want our population, which continues to grow, to also go back to [catching] the eel, to use it as food ...

NovaEel had proposed to build an aquaculture facility in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia to raise baby eels to adult size ...

a fish trap commonly used for sampling. The eel was found dead and preserved in ethanol. “We conducted a survey of freshwater glass eels (juveniles of Anguilla spp.) in the Langyang River ...