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Put rules in writing to fix Maritime elver fishery’s enforcement problem, say businesses
(Source: CBC News) – Commercial elver harvesters urge government to introduce better regulations around lucrative catch Representatives of the $45-million Maritime elver fishery are calling on the federal government to implement enforceable…
February 29, 2024 -
Will Canada have a spring elver fishery?
(Source: CBC Listen) – The comment period on a possible closure of Canada’s spring elver fishery is officially over, so what happens next? Stanley King, a long time fisherman and member of…
February 26, 2024 -
Death threats, intimidation and assault — all this for baby eels?
(Source: CBC Listen) – It sounds surprising, but baby eels, or elvers, have become big business in Canada. And along with the profits have come poachers — and some serious threats. The…
February 24, 2024 -
Canada’s graduation from lax fisheries enforcer to laundromat for international poachers
(Source: Saltwire) – Years of federal inattention, lack of enforcement, and the fact they sell for $5,000 a kilogram has made Canada a clearing house for illegally caught juvenile eels worldwide. READ…
February 23, 2024 -
Canada’s fish minister riles ell industry with talk of shutdown to handle poaching crisis
(Source: undercurrentnews) – With a potential CAD 45m season in jeopardy, the Canadian elver industry says the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has rejected its offer to pay for solutions to stop…
February 15, 2024 -
For Immediate Release
(Tantallon, NS) – Today the Hon. Diane Lebouthillier, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, sent a letter to all licensed elver harvesters to propose the closure of the upcoming elver season. On behalf…
February 13, 2024 -
Statement by CCSEF Following Testimony of Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Before the House of Commons Standing Committee
(Tantallon, NS) –Today’s testimony by Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Annette Gibbons before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans reveals that the elver fishery, currently under serious…
February 13, 2024 -
Canada proposes shutdown of troubled Maritime elver fishery in 2024
(Source CBC News) ‘It is not possible to have a safe and sustainable elver fishery in 2024,’ minister says The federal government has served notice it intends to close the commercial fishery…
February 13, 2024 -
Fisheries minister leaning toward suspending this year’s Maritime baby eel fishery
(Source: Toronto Star) HALIFAX – Canada’s fisheries minister says she wants to shut down this year’s lucrative baby eel fishery with only weeks to go before the season opens in the Maritimes.…
February 13, 2024 -
Sustainable River-Basin Designs: Siting Hydropower to Benefit American Eels and Energy Production in the Roanoke River Basin
(Source: Academia / Oak Ridge National Laboratory) The American eel (Anguilla rostrata) has been proposed for special protection in the United States under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This conservation action could impact a significant number of hydropower…
November 5, 2023