Activists blend science and folklore as they try to revive Somerset’s eel population
via theguardian.com
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Feargal Sharkey back campaign to save the animal, which once inspired placenames, songs and stories When the Somerset Levels flood in winter, their reed-fringed waterways swell into a glinting inland sea – haunting and half forgotten. Generations ago, these wetlands pulsed with the seasonal arrival of eels: twisting through rhynes – human-made […]