Before spawning, matured eels fast for months, their ultimate death resulting from starvation. The small eels that return by the myriad are at least a year old, having developed out of a larval ...
The RSPB said stopping industrial trawling for the small eel-like fish in the North Sea would "throw our most threatened seabirds a lifeline in the face of mounting pressures". Sandeels are a ...