The Bellamy River runs behind the school where I teach. My sophomore biology class ended the year conducting macroinvertebrate diversity studies, spending warm late-spring mornings dipping for the ...

One Swedish summer, a father and son rig up a strange contraption so they can electrocute their lawn. Their intention, of course, is to harvest a large quantity of earthworms, for these are amateur ...

FROM ARISTOTLE to Sigmund Freud, eels’ reproductive habits have puzzled observers of the natural world. In a life-cycle the opposite of a salmon’s, they grow from youth to maturity in rivers and ponds ...

The EU fisheries ministers have for the first time agreed for a temporary closure of 3 months in 2018 for the European eel fisheries in all EU waters, including the Baltic Sea. While WWF regards this ...

Consumed worldwide, eel is particularly popular in Asia, and perhaps nowhere more so than Japan, where remains found in tombs show it has been eaten on the ...

THE argument in Dr. Wemyss Fulton's very interesting letter in NATURE of March 17, p. 359, must be divided into two parts. First, it is pointed out that the gradual recession of the east and west ...