Thousands of dead eels have appeared on a Canterbury beach, shocking locals. Environment Canterbury says the deaths were natural, caused by poorly timed migration during the tuna heke. They said the ...

Environmental authorities’ original explanation about the death of thousands of eels on a Canterbury beach was “absurd”, according to a well-known freshwater ecologist. Birdlings Flat in Canterbury ...

No matter how strong they are claimed to be, they always end up straigh­tening and the eels escape,” he says. Famie hammers the end of a piece of spring steel flat, then files it into a sharp ...