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(Source: Saltwire) BEDFORD, N.S. — There’s a fyke net setup each evening in the Sackville River where it runs through Fish Hatchery Park in Bedford. The net is set up in broad…

(Source: Hakai Magazine) East Coast fishers have weathered arson, gunshots, and harassment. Conflict and turmoil will likely continue until the Canadian government addresses Indigenous rights head-on. READ MORE

(Source: Saltwire) An orderly and sustainable elver fishery subject to monitoring and enforcement is wrapping up . . . somewhere else. READ MORE

(Source: CTV News) HALIFAX – Indigenous and non-Indigenous baby eel harvesters are lamenting that a long-running study on the species has been cancelled because of unlicensed, chaotic fishing. READ MORE

(Source: Atlantic Fisherman) Citing conservation and safety concerns, the elver fishery in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick was shut down by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) this spring, leaving licence holders with…

(Source: CBC) “Only criminals are profiting, says business owner obeying the elver fishery shutdown. A week and a half after Wine Harbour Fisheries was ordered to pull its baby eel — or elver…

(Source: Saltwire) “The biggest little fishery in Atlantic Canada that you’ve probably never heard of is for elvers. Also known as glass eels, elvers are young American eels that are fished each spring…

(Source: The Canadian Press) “HALIFAX – Photographs have been released showing people fishing for baby eels in Nova Scotia despite the federal government’s recent decision to shut down the contentious fishery.…” READ MORE

(Source: CBC) “’Poachers continue to fish regardless,’ Atlantic Elver Fishery tells officials in email Poaching continues uninterrupted on some Nova Scotia rivers despite a federal shutdown of the eel fishery earlier this month,…

(Source: Halifax Examiner) “Until recently, I could not have told you the difference between an elver and one of Santa’s elves. Now, thanks largely to excellent ongoing reporting by the CBC’s Paul Withers,…