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 ...

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 ...

However, the EU claims the move is "discriminatory and disproportionate" and could threaten the future of commercial sand eel fishing in Denmark. Conservationists backed the fishing ban by the UK ...

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A challenge to Britain's ban on commercial fishing for sand-eels in the North Sea has begun in a European court. Sand eels are a vital source of food for seabirds that live along the UK coastline ...

A slimy air-breathing eel that can live out of water for months at a time is slithering our way. Biologists fear the Asian swamp eel could wipe out countless small native Florida fish and ...

(WAFF) - It’s almost Groundhog Day and the yearly north Alabama tradition with an opossum kicked off on Friday in Boaz. Sand Mountain Sam is an opossum that predicts the weather around Feb. 2 every ...

Puffins can’t get enough of the silvery sand eels Credit: Kyn Wai Chung flickr Of no particular interest to any European restaurant although a delicacy for puffins, cod and haddock, the humble sand ...

There would not be many New Zealand children who have not had a go at catching an eel with a hook and a bit of old meat. It was a favourite pastime in my family; catching an eel, cleaning it and ...