Two Dominican nationals were sentenced for smuggling juvenile American eels from Puerto Rico. On Feb. 21, both defendants left Puerto Rico bound for the Dominican Republic in a boat that contained 30 ...

Eighth-graders on Staten Island spent their free time this past spring counting — thousands of eels! Dozens of nature-minded middle-schoolers waded into Richmond Creek with nets in hand to scoop out ...

The illegal trafficking of critically endangered European glass eels continues to thrive, generating up to 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion) in peak years, with more than 1 million live eels seized in ...