Poached elvers still getting exported despite DFO busts and closed season

(Source: Saltwire | Posted: April 24 2024)

Even as DFO has begun arresting illegal elver harvesters, the baby eels are still leaving Canadian airports under the federal government’s nose enroute to markets in Asia.

Late Saturday night, Fisheries and Oceans Canada officers arrested five more people for illegally fishing elvers in the Meteghan area.

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