(Source: CBC News | Posted: May 3 2024)
Officers searched suspected holding facility this week, seized 28.1 kilograms of juvenile eels.
The top enforcement officer for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in the Maritimes says arrests and seizures are “having a significant deterrence” on unauthorized elver fishing this spring, comments that come the same week as a large bust at a suspected holding facility.
“This is due to the sheer number of officers we have on patrol. The number of arrests we’ve made and the vehicles we’ve seized,” Tim Kerr of the conservation and protection branch said in a briefing to interested parties on Thursday.
Atlantic Canada Elver Fishers Advisory Council Inc. 