Large populations of sand eels occur only every few years. Some years might bring a day or three of being able to fish among these tiny almost-transparent baitfish, but the really good years bring ...

A challenge to Britain's ban on commercial fishing for sandeels in the North Sea has been dismissed by a European court. Sandeels are a vital source of food for seabirds that live along the UK ...

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 UK has taken progressive and important action in ending the commercial fishing of sand eels and we urge the Government to stand strong in the face of these retrogressive challenges from the EU ...

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 ...

The European Union has launched legal action against the UK over a ban on catching sand eels in British waters in a fresh post-Brexit fishing dispute. In January, Britain announced a ban on ...

The ban was enforced last March, after decades of campaigning finally halted industrial fishing of sand eels in the North Sea and Scottish waters. But to the bitter disappointment of ...