Maine is implementing a new lottery system for licenses to fish for baby eels, which are worth more than $1,000 per pound on the worldwide sushi market. Baby eels, called elvers, are a major fishery ...

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 ...

Some Wolastoqey fishers say closure of the fishery for baby eels, or elvers, this year will infringe on their treaty rights and impact their right to earn a moderate livelihood from fishing. Last week ...

PORTLAND, MainePORTLAND, Maine — U.S. regulators decided Wednesday to allow American fishermen to harvest thousands of pounds of valuable baby eels in the coming years, even as authorities have ...

In an effort to avoid a repeat of last spring’s turf war with state fisheries regulators over the harvesting of translucent baby eels, Passamaquoddy tribal chiefs at Indian Township and Sipayik in ...

Federal regulators have cut Maine fishermen's quota for elvers by nearly 18 percent to allow the stock of the lucrative baby eels to rebuild. The move came Monday after a federal panel had recommended ...

Two lawsuits around the tribal elver fishery were recently filed by members of the Passamaquoddy tribe, including one alleging that posting a harvester's landing reports on social media deprived that ...

In this Thursday, March 14, 2013 photo, eel fisherman Mike Murphy, of Cundy's Harbor, Maine, inspects a 30-foot-long fyke net, in Falmouth, Maine. Last year, glass-eel fishermen at times got more than ...

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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A regulatory board decided Wednesday that Maine’s baby eel fishery, the only ...