ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Consider the hagfish. Maybe you’ve never heard of these deep ocean creatures, also called “slime eels” for their eel-like appearance and ability to secrete huge amounts of ...

Hagfish is the real name for what is commonly called slime eels and it could become a viable fishery with ready markets standing by. Little is known about hagfish in Alaska, although they are commonly ...

PORT ANGELES — A relatively untapped fishery is growing on the North Olympic Peninsula with at least two fish distributors planning to expand hagfish operations to supply Asian markets. Hagfish, also ...

The humble hagfish produces a sticky slime to defend itself from predators, as well as to hunt for its own food. Now a team of Swiss scientists has figured out the physics behind how the hagfish can ...

Hagfish is the real name for what are commonly called slime eels, and it could become a viable fishery with ready markets standing by. Little is known about hagfish in Alaska, although they are ...

The first time Vinalhaven lobsterboat captain Frank Thompson trapped hagfish in the Gulf of Maine, the pinkish-gray, snakelike animals popped the hatch off his hold — with their slime. When stressed ...

Beachgoers in Maui County may help solve a mystery that’s been plaguing Hawaii’s waters for years. The Surfrider Foundation on Monday launched a statewide effort called “North Pacific Hagfish Trap ...

Maybe you’ve never heard of these deep ocean creatures, also called “slime eels” for their eel-like appearance and ability to secrete huge amounts of opaque slime. Not exactly a mouth-watering ...

The hagfish, a primitive fish that looks like an eel and scavenges off the ocean floor, dwells in cold, deep waters around the world — but not in Hawaii. Yet, for years, thousands upon thousands of ...

The hagfish is a bottom feeder so repulsive it had a cameo on TV’s “Fear Factor.” It slimes its enemies, has rows of teeth on its tongue, and feeds on the innards of rotting fish by penetrating any ...