Pots used to catch eels are killing scores of terrapins -- the Maryland state reptile and the beloved mascot of the University of Maryland -- according to a new study. The report, published in the ...

The old gent never said much while we were hauling gear. A nod here, a grin there at an especially full pot, but God forbid if I pulled the cork float on a pot with very little weight in it, something ...

Skip Zink has been a field biologist with the Maine Department of Marine Resources for twenty-five years. His specialty for the last fifteen has been the American eel, Anguilla rostrata, one of the ...

(CNN) — Brad Hatch takes pride in his work as a Patawomeck Indian Tribe master eel pot maker. When Hatch works to weave split white oak into baskets used to capture the slippery creatures, he’s ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The word eel conjures up slimy, slithery images for most – not something ...

The Atlantic eel that Ken Slazyk pulled from the pot in the James River, 8 miles downstream from Hopewell, was a green, 18-inch-long juvenile that had, in one of the greatest mysteries of modern ...