The daunting question faced for years now by a small farming valley in Mendocino County is where it will turn to for irrigation water once the Lake County dam that impounds its main source, Lake ...

Eel Populations Are Falling, and New Protections Were Defeated. Japan and the US Opposed Them SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Eels are the stuff of nightmares — slimy, snakelike creatures that lay millions ...

Signatories to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington convention, voted at a committee meeting on Thursday to reject a ...

A proposal to add Japanese eel to species subject to regulation is prompting concern that prices for the delicacy may increase. The Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade ...

A proposal from the European Union to regulate international trade in eel species is a key focus of an international conference on endangered species that opened on Monday. Japan is urging other ...

At an eel restaurant near Tokyo, four friends sit down to eat a Japanese delicacy now the subject of a heated international debate as its numbers decline. The eel, hugely popular across Japan, is also ...

International trade restrictions on eels under the Washington Convention may be strengthened, with a vote on the matter drawing attention to the meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES set ...

At an eel restaurant near Tokyo, four friends sit down to eat a Japanese delicacy now the subject of a heated international debate as its numbers decline. The eel, hugely popular across Japan, is also ...