Jeff Hill, an assistant professor with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, holds an Asian swamp eel in his Ruskin, Fla., laboratory – April 26, 2006. Described as a voracious predator of fish that could threaten Florida’s $60 million aquarium fish industry, the exotic eel is not a major problem after all, according to a new study by UF’s fisheries and aquatic sciences department.

(Josh Wickham / University Florida / IFAS)
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