Another eel washes up on beach in Shoreham

The eel discovered by Richard Durrant. Photo: Richard Durrant

Musician Richard Durrant came across the conger eel on Shoreham Beach on Monday.

He said it must have weighed about 30 pounds, adding: “That’s quite a big fish.”

It comes after another conger eel was discovered washed up near the Blue Bird Café in Ferring on Monday afternoon.

Holly Asargiotakis was out walking her dog when she stumbled across the slimy behemoth – read the full story here.

Cathy Randell also spotted the same creature on Sunday morning.

Worthing and Adur’s coastal office confirmed the animal was a conger eel, which are native to the UK’s waters.

The European conger eel can grow to more than 6ft in length and some have been known to attack humans.

This eel was spotted by Cathy Randell in Ferring. Photo: Cathy Randell

Mr Durrant said it was not only the conger eel he came across in Shoreham that day.

Along the high tide line were ‘dozens of starfish, lobsters, crabs’ which he said had all been ‘mangled’ and ‘smashed up’.

He said the shoreline looked like a graveyard, adding: “It was dreadful, it was carnage.”

The musician released an album called Rewilding last year and said he was quite outspoken about ecological matters.

Mr Durrant also came across several other dead sea creatures on the shore. Photo: Richard Durrant

He is playing an online concert this Saturday called The Pollinator, performing music inspired by the natural world, and will also be talking about some of the things we can do as individuals to support the natural environment.