DARTMOUTH, NS, March 3, 2025 /CNW/ - An orderly and well regulated elver fishery is essential for the long term sustainability of this high-value species. Now that strengthened regulations and ...

After a barrage of criticism over a plan to transfer baby eel quotas away from longtime licence holders, the federal Fisheries Department is delaying information sessions on the pilot project. In ...

Legal elver fishers are the only ones being penalized by the federal government's decision to shut down the Maritime fishery, the standing committee on fisheries and oceans heard on Tuesday in Ottawa.

A federal proposal that would redistribute the overall quota for catching highly lucrative baby eels to individual fishers will not compensate commercial licence-holders who employ those workers, ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. DARTMOUTH, NS, March 25, 2026 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada is committed to sustainable and orderly fisheries that ...

More than three dozen people -- 37 to be exact -- have been charged with offenses related to illegal elver fishing in Canada's Maritime provinces in 2024, reports the CBC. However, the number of ...

Some Mi'kmaw elders are concerned about the adult eel population as the industry harvesting baby eels, or elvers, grows. Gordon LaBillois said his community Ugpi'ganjig, or Eel River Bar First Nation, ...

The fishing season for baby eels is set to begin in the Maritimes, but at least one First Nation says it won’t abide by federal rules that limit the lucrative catch. In a March 5 letter, Chief Bob ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People are shown harvesting elvers in April 2023, after the federal fisheries minister ordered a shutdown of the fishery.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The price of baby eels in Maine is soaring to record highs at the start of a season in which buyers expect to pay more for the valuable fish. Baby eels, called elvers, are an ...

Dusk falls and the elver poachers appear. They set up their equipment in the mud and then simply wait for the tide to rush in, bringing with it thousands of tiny juvenile eels. Within an hour one net ...