The Sustainable Eel Group restocked 10,000 elvers in the Thames - TopicsExpress



          

The Sustainable Eel Group restocked 10,000 elvers in the Thames today with Zac Goldsmith MP, to celebrate 15 million eels being restocked in the UK this year. They were, in Goldsmith’s own words, “extraordinarily tough and determined” considering “how tiny and fragile they look”. For they were just a fraction of the minuscule fraction – 1 per cent – who made it “from their spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea to Europe. (“Trillions were born but only a billion or two arrived,” exclaimed Kerr, lovingly.)
Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 08:59:27 +0000

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