Hundreds of elvers are being released into lakes as part of a plan to save the critically endangered European eel. Children from Bristol and Somerset have been rearing them in classrooms for an ...

The European eel is considered critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature A weir built to supply water to a nuclear plant in southern Scotland formed a barrier ...

The European eel Anguilla anguilla, a sleek, snake-like fish with a fascinating life cycle, once teemed in rivers. But their numbers have plummeted by more than 95% since the 1980s. Behind this ...

7000 km - distance between the Sargasso Sea breeding sites and the UK 90% - decline of European Eel stock since the 1970s The young Eels known as leptocephalus are so transparent that you can read ...

It is our hope that through implementation of urgent measures and better management and protection in the future, we can enable long-term recovery and sustainable exploitation of European eel, but we ...

The project costs £1m and aims to ensure European eels, an endangered species, are protected when the company takes water from the river to treat it. The screens, made of mesh, prevent the eels ...

Environment Agency-authorised fishing parties have been collecting the critically-endangered fish as part of a Sustainable Eel Group (SEG ... Most scientists believe that European eels originate from ...

In 2014, the Japanese eel was listed as endangered by the International Union ... it wasn´t until the early 20th century that European scientists discovered that European and American eels ...

OSAKA--Endangered Japanese eels are thriving in a seemingly unlikely spot, the Dotonborigawa river that runs through the city’s busy Minami entertainment district. Eels were caught there for the ...

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