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Slippery Business: Reproductive Biology of Freshwater Eels
from Natural History
... The idea of an afternoon spent fishing for and handling eels has long since fallen out of favor in the United States. Likewise, eels themselves have disappeared from North American cuisine, where for a long time they held a high place.
... Even though people around the world have been eating freshwater eels, and researchers (beginning with Aristotle) have been studying them, for thousands of years, much about the animals remains unknown.
Spurred by global population declines, however, scientists are beginning to unlock some of the freshwater eels' millennial mysteries. And they are closing in on the long-standing goal of breeding eels and raising them to adulthood in captivity on a commercial scale ...
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