(Source: Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Posted: Mar 11, 2024)

News release, March 11, 2024

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia – Unauthorized fishing is a threat to the sustainability of fish stocks and undermines the livelihoods of law-abiding fish harvesters. The elver fishery is not open for 2024 in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, therefore any harvesting is unauthorized. Should anyone choose to fish for elver they will be subject to enforcement action as per the Fisheries Act and the Maritime Provinces Fishery Regulations.

On March 6 and 7, 2024 in separate incidents across Southwest Nova Scotia, fishery officers arrested and later released a total of five individuals who are under investigation for infractions of the Fisheries Act and Maritimes Provinces Fishery Regulations for the unauthorized harvest of elver. Fishery officers also seized a total of two vehicles, one fyke net, eight dip nets, elver fishing equipment and approximately 1.14 kg of elver, which were released live back into their river of origin.

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