Irish marine scientists have revealed details of a research project to investigate the dramatic decline in eel stocks on the country's rivers and lakes. Eels are the only freshwater fish that spawn at ...

Redesigned eel traps have been put in at a hydro-electric dam on the River Erne to prevent a repeat of last year's massive kill of the critically-endangered fish. Eleven months since 300,000 of the ...

Redesigned eel traps have been put in at a hydro-electric dam on the River Erne to prevent a repeat of last year’s massive kill of the critically-endangered fish. Tue, 03 Mar, 2015 - 15:27 Redesigned ...

A passage to help eels navigate a river is being replaced with a more modern version. The European eel population has declined dramatically in recent decades due to habitat loss, overfishing and ...

Dedicated "eel lanes" are to be created in rivers at the South Downs National Park to assist with the migration of the European eel. The project includes the installation of fish passes created around ...

Dedicated “eel lanes” are being created in the rivers of the South Downs National Park to assist the migration of the European eel, which makes an “incredible” 4,000-mile transatlantic journey from ...

ANOTHER LIFE: Now the weather has got back to itself, perhaps the eels can go to sea. In September, when the moon was right - that's to say, dwindling fast towards darkness in its final quarter - we ...