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 ...

When we pulled pots loaded with eels, only the larger market (meat) eels were harvested, with the smaller specimens released to survive and propagate.

When we pulled pots loaded with eels, only the larger market (meat) eels were harvested, with the smaller specimens released to survive and propagate.

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 helping ...

Frank Sloup, like so many baymen before him, moved on. Forced out of business by the Town of Islip, which banned his crab and eel pots in 2004, he lost his home and bait shop to foreclosure, sold ...

By Chandelis Duster, CNN (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 ...

If, that is, this eel manages to escape the eel pots of a growing Chesapeake Bay fishery, said Slazyk, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Virginia senior field manager for education. Eels are a ...

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 bi… ...

The Eel Project has been counting more eels on the Hudson River, but the bigger picture of their status is still not clear.

(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 ...