Killer threats: the fight to save killifish

THOSE WHO HAVE been following these monthly SHOAL conservation features will know that freshwater fish are in freefall. Populations are nosediving worldwide, declining at more than twice that of their

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

In 2015, the world witnessed a quiet tragedy. On a remote island at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef, the last known Bramble Cay melomys disappeared. Its vanishing set a record – the first r

A sturdy bonsai freshwater swashbuckler, the spiny stickleback is often the first fish we catch as children

DEEP IN THE heart of the Peruvian Amazon, just 10km south-west of Iquitos, a small but mighty research facility is making waves in the world of freshwater fish conservation. The Amazon Research Center

As an island nation, the UK has a long and proud fishing history, a cultural identity that caused waves in the 2016 campaign to leave the EU. For a few days in May 2025 that passion resurfaced, when t