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 ...

What comes to mind when you think of eels or moray eel facts? Slimy water creatures that live in the ocean and are probably dangerous? If so, you're not alone. Eels have a bit of a bad reputation ...

By Shanna Hanbury The critically endangered European eel population is facing collapse in Spain’s Ebro Delta, where populations have plummeted by more than 80% in recent years, according to a new ...

European eels can grow up to a metre in length A man has been sentenced after smuggling hundreds of endangered European eels into Wales from Dublin. Kevin Forbes, from Rossa Court in Dungannon ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Angulas are the young of the European eel. They are a delicacy in Spain, where a single kilogram can reach thousands of dollars at auction. Angulas are tiny.

Plans have been lodged to boost a population of endangered eels by helping them access upstream habitats. European eels have experienced a 90% decline across the UK over the past 25 years ...

Endangered European eels, which start their lives in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda before heading to Europe and then returning to their birthplace to spawn 20 years later, have declined by 95% in ...

However, Lord De Mauley has pressed the Government over why this does not extend to the export of glass eels, the juvenile form of the European species. Responding to a written parliamentary ...