Taishan, which has an eel farming area of more than 33.33 million square meters, reaches an annual eel output of more than 50 ...

High demand for eel combined with a decline in stock have resulted in soaring prices for this food item, which, in many ...

Ellen Ruppel Shell takes a deep dive into the facts, figures and fascinating people that swirl around the intriguing eel.

To investigate the prevalence and consumption of endangered eels, a Yale-NUS College research team examined 327 individual eel products purchased across 86 retailers throughout Singapore. The team ...

At the Vietnam-Japan Festival 2025, Can Tho University introduced a climate-adaptive recirculating eel farming model, ...

European eel juveniles continue to be smuggled out of the EU to Asia where they are grown in eel farms until reaching a ...

A university in Japan announced a major breakthrough in the complete farming of highly endangered Japanese eels, claiming a world first by an academic institution. Kindai University in Osaka ...

Young eels, called glass eels, are caught in the wild and raised on farms like this. No farms have been able to efficiently breed the eels in captivity. So farmers depend on the catch of young ...

Even though most Japanese eels are farm-raised, the process begins with catching wild juveniles, called elvers. Hatching them from eggs has historically posed significant technical challenges.

anguilla juveniles continue to be smuggled out of the EU to Asia where they are grown in eel farms until reaching a marketable size. Given these findings, the research team called for specific ...