Product details

Title

Passing through Burnham

Artist

Julia Manning RE (i)

Medium

Linocut (i)

Numbered

/6

Size (WxH)

50 x 75cm

Framed

No

Ref. No

24568

Silver eels move downstream and into the sea in pulses, responding to heavy rainfall or flood events. Often there are large batches of eels leaving at one time and so Somerset may see a large scale exodus if there has been persistent rain across the county affecting all the river systems. The rivers Tone and Yeo flow into the River Parrett and this is a major artery for eels to travel down. The King Sedgemoor Drain, the Brue, the Axe and the Congresbury Yeo all are capable of discharging silver eels out into the Bristol Channel – the first part of the marine leg of their 3500 mile journey towards Bermuda and the Sargasso Sea.