The changing times of Europe's largest remaining commercially harvested population of eel Anguilla anguilla L.

This study quantifies the processes involved in regulating the European eel population of Lough Neagh, a lake in Northern Ireland. The relationship between glass eel input and silver eel output for the 1923-1997 cohorts was best described by a Beverton-Holt stock recruitment model. Glass eel input time series was not complete and was thus derived from the relationship between catches elsewhere in Europe and Lough Neagh, together with the addition of stocked glass eel.

Whether European eel leptocephali use the Earth's magnetic field to guide their migration remains an open question.

European eels (Anguilla anguilla) migrate between the southwestern Sargasso Sea and the European and Mediterranean coasts. In a recent paper in Current Biology, Naisbett-Jones et al.[1] claim to "provide the first evidence that they [eels] derive positional information from the Earth's magnetic field" and that this information guides their migration.