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Eel trade is pushing another species to the brink
The global trade is shifting focus from the critically endangered European eel to the American eel, raising new conservation ...
Growing consumption of the American eel may lead to it being critically endangered, study finds
High demand for eel combined with a decline in stock have resulted in soaring prices for this food item, which, in many ...
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Growing consumption of the American eel may lead to it being critically endangered like its European counterpart
To investigate the prevalence and consumption of endangered eels, a Yale-NUS College research team examined 327 individual eel products purchased across 86 retailers throughout Singapore. The team ...
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Singaporeans’ High Appetite For Eel May Pose Extinction Threat
European eel juveniles continue to be smuggled out of the EU to Asia where they are grown in eel farms until reaching a ...
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Loch Ness Monster isn't a dinosaur, say scientists — but it might it be a giant eel
Forget long-lived dinosaurs, over-size sturgeons or giant catfish: the mythical Loch Ness monster may have just been a very big eel. Scientists at the University of Otago, in New Zealand, came to the ...
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Growing consumption of the American eel may lead to it being critically endangered like its European counterpart
Joshua and the research team performed DNA barcoding of the samples of eel meat, sold as 'eel' or 'unagi' by supermarkets, restaurants, and wholesalers. Their findings found three pieces of the ...