This country once ran on eels, but now man-made obstacles mean they die before they can complete one of the world’s great migrationsIt is a long way from the Sargasso Sea to Burnham-on-Sea. Even more so for an eel. First as an egg and then as a tiny, slithery glass eel, they are tossed on the waves and battered by the storms. Eels have evolved to cross 3,000 miles of ocean, but they have not evolved to climb the Huntspill Barrier. Wriggling and writhing, each year they die here in their hundreds of thousands.

Source: The Times February 25, 2023 09:04 UTC