While practising law, Holland wanted to get into the fishing business. His first plan was to build a freshwater smolt ...

The sea without shores: an ecosystem teeming with life, yet notorious for creating seaweed that invades beaches with its foul ...

Eels start their lives in the Sargasso Sea near the Caribbean and the European eel species travels across the Atlantic to freshwater habitats. Mr Wood counts the number of eels on the River Wensum ...

7000 km - distance between the Sargasso Sea breeding sites and the UK 90% - decline of European Eel stock since the 1970s The young Eels known as leptocephalus are so transparent that you can read ...

The Sargasso Sea Commission notes that endangered species of eels go to the sea to breed, while whales – most notably sperm and humpbacks – migrate through it, as do tuna and other types of fish.

DESCRIBED as “liquid gold”, baby eels or elvers are among the most valuable aquatic creatures in the world, with their price ...

They live in the pond across the street from my house, but guess where they—and every other American eel—were born? In a warm womb a few thousand miles away called the Sargasso Sea.

Unlike many fish species, European eels belong to a single population. They all spawn in the Sargasso Sea in the Caribbean. The larvae then hitch a ride on the Gulf Stream back to Europe ...