European eel population collapsing AP Worldstream | August 13, 2004| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

TOBY STERLING, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
08-13-2004
Dateline: AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
When a poacher with a baseball bat mugged Dutch biologist Willem Dekker to steal a batch of baby eel he caught for research, Dekker knew the European eel was a species in trouble.

The strange, snakelike fish with its mysterious life cycle has managed to survive in rivers and on farms despite overfishing and a loss of natural habitat, thanks to artificial restocking with tiny eel fry, known as "glass eel."

Because eel do not breed in captivity, collecting the glass eel from shorelines and rearing ...

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