'The eels were climbing out of the water to die'
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October 06, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (1 comments)
ShadowOfThePit
Christ. What a quote. And how depressing it all is. The poor family... > Eels are pretty hardy, says Alistair; they can even travel over land if they need to. To see them gasping and dying on the banks was heartbreaking. “It was apocalyptic.” > The results found unusually high levels of heavy metals, ammonia levels that were “well outside acceptable limits for any freshwater life” and nitrogen levels that were “toxic to all aquatic life”. It's quite a long article that deals with many problems the UK has regarding environmental protection, illegal waste dumping and so on. The lack of care and amount of damage is just shocking. I really recommend a read.