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Regional eel fishery regulators are developing new proposals, possibly including an annual catch cap, to limit Maine’s lucrative glass eel, or elver, harvest. The Associated Press reported the ...

One morning this past spring, after commercial elver fishermen had met their quotas and elver buyers had closed up shop for the season, two fyke nets showed up where the Megunticook River empties into ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Fishermen in the U.S.'s only commercial-scale fishing industry for valuable baby eels once again had a productive season searching for the tiny fish. Baby eels, called elvers, are ...

PORTLAND, Maine – Maine fishermen began several weeks of taking to rivers and streams to fish for baby eels Friday, which marked the start of a high-stakes season harvesters hope isn't interrupted by ...

Three state agencies are collaborating to root out welfare fraud by elver fishermen in an investigation that state officials said was mistakenly disclosed to the press. The Maine Sunday Telegram ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. AUGUSTA — Fishing regulators and industry representatives support a plan for ...

In the Ebro River delta, the fishing of elver (an eel, Anguilla anguilla) leads to the accidental capture of other fish species, with the capture of one ton of elver possibly resulting in the capture ...