AONB: Norfolk Coast
Glaven Eel Project
Eels have been at the core of the River Glaven ecology and local culture for hundreds of years but have suffered a steep decline in numbers.
The Norfolk Coast AONB project increased scientific knowledge about the critically-endangered species, improved eel habitat and re-connected current generations with the eel, its folklore and traditions, and with the few-remaining eel catchers, who made their living from the eel - before these connections are lost forever