A puffin eats sand eels at England's Farne Islands National Nature Reserve. (Wildlife Terry via Flickr) THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) — The European Union told an arbitration court on Tuesday the United ...

Sand eels are not even eels. They are long, thin fish, useful to humans only to produce fishmeal. But puffins and kittiwakes love them; and in view of these birds’ declining numbers, the UK last year ...

Northumbrian Water has installed the first two new eel screens as part of an £11m environmental programme at Ovingham.

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A new financial scheme to support eel fishermen on Lough Neagh should be "urgently" reconsidered, according to a seventh generation fisherman. The Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister ...

It is hoped that the screens will prevent the critically endangered European eel and other river fish, from getting into the ...

The EU has taken legal action against the UK, arguing that its ban on sand eel fishing in North Sea waters violates post-Brexit fishing agreements, Reuters reported. The case challenges UK ...

A 7-foot-long (2.1 meters) conger eel was caught off the southwestern coast of the United Kingdom near Devon. (Plymouth Fisheries) A silvery-gray conger eel had already gone limp by the time fishermen ...