[ehecatl42]

Not any more. They are a critically endangered species.

I grew up in the 80s, mid-way along the length of the Severn, and have very strong memories of night "fishing" for eels with my father. IIRC, the preferred method was a tangled mass of wire and standard fishing line and as many worms as we could dig up, placed in a weighted hessian sack, with holes therein. Then it was just a question of waiting. Eels went in; they could not come out.

I suppose in some small way I've contributed to their catastrophic decline. I honestly feel some guilt for that.