A rare sighting on an Australian beach has signalled the start of an exciting ancient ritual performed every year by one of ...

The unassuming little sand-eel keeps a low profile. We haven’t even got its name right — this is not an eel, nor is it closely related to eels. However, sand-eel and sprat are ‘keystone ...

The RSPB, which runs the nature reserve at Bempton Cliffs, is celebrating after the Permanent Court of Arbitration rejected an EU challenge over the banning of sand ...

LONDON — Brexit Britain is to remain a safe haven for sand eels after EU legal action to reverse a ban on catching the snakey fish failed. The U.K. government beefed up its marine environmental ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK breached its obligations in closing parts of its waters to EU sand eel fishermen, a tribunal has ...

Sand eels are not even eels. They are long, thin fish, useful to humans only to produce fishmeal. But puffins and kittiwakes love them; and in view of these birds’ declining numbers, the UK last year ...

Last July I visited Bempton Cliffs, a nature reserve on the north-east coast of England managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Throughout the spring and summer, around half a ...

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 argues that the ban lacks sufficient scientific justification and disproportionately affects Danish fishers, who ...

Sand eel is set to take center stage in the first courtroom trade battle between the UK and EU since Brexit, reports the BBC. The UK has banned European vessels from catching the fish in its North ...

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 ...

or sand eel, which can reach 18 inches. “Sand eels so thick they spearing right thru heads of cape sharks,” LBI Fishing Charters wrote. The photo has gotten hundreds of reactions on social ...