New ‘cheap and easy’ method could make upstream swim easier for endangered eels

A new “cheap and easy” method could make swimming upstream easier for a critically endangered eel species when they arrive in the UK and help slow down population declines, scientists have found.

Each year, more than a billion European eels (Anguilla anguilla) travel 4,000 miles across the Atlantic to European shores.

But the creatures are still very young when