FILE - In this Friday, March 24, 2012, file photo, a man holds elvers, young, translucent eels, in Portland, Maine. Baby eels are the most lucrative fishery in the state on a per-pound basis, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Unbeknownst to most Staten Islanders, thousands of tiny translucent eels live among us in our water. But contrary to how they are depicted traditionally in children’s movies, ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Tiny translucent elvers — alien-looking baby eels the size of toothpicks, with big black eyes and spines — are mysterious creatures, floating thousands of miles from their ...

KAMPONG PHLUK, Cambodia -- Em Phat, 53, studies his eel tanks with the intensity of a man gambling with his livelihood. For millennia, fishermen like him have relied on the bounty of the Tonle Sap in ...

HARTFORD >> A last-minute maneuver in the legislature followed quickly by a green light from a regional governing body is putting the lucrative eel industry within Connecticut’s reach. Days after a ...