(Source: CBC News | Posted: Mar 11, 2024 8:33 PM ADT)

A Nova Scotia Liberal MP is objecting to the federal government’s decision to cancel the 2024 season for harvesting baby eels, also known as elvers, in the Maritimes.

Three-term MP Darren Fisher wrote on Tuesday to the federal Fisheries and Oceans minister expressing his “concern and disappointment” and to question the sincerity of consultations with licensed harvesters that preceded the decision. Fisher said it amounted to checking a box.

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