About Us
ACEFAC — Atlantic Canada Elver Fishers Advisory Council Inc.
The Atlantic Canada Elver Fishers Advisory Council Inc. (ACEFAC) is a non-profit organization which acts as an advisory council for elver fishers in New Brunswick and Eastern Nova Scotia. ACEFAC works to promote, encourage and support a sustainable elver industry in Canada, and to promote and support the viability and conservation of wild eel stocks.
Our members have been involved in the Atlantic Canada Elver Fishery since its inception in 1988, have been involved in the development of American Eel aquaculture since 1995, and continue to promote and support education, research and knowledge relating to the American Eel and the elver fishery in Atlantic Canada.
Conservation and research of American Eel that ACEFAC members have supported:
• Elver abundance study on the East River-Chester, NS directed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
• Stocking of elvers into the upper St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario, Canada under biologist Ron Threader, Ontario Power Generation
• Stocking of eels in Lac Moran, Quebec by M. George Lizotte
• Contribution of elvers to the research of Dr. John Casselman and Courtney V. Holden, Queen’s University
• Contribution of elvers, gear and training to the research on the invasive swim bladder parasite in eels by Dr. Mike Duffy and Stephanie Scott Luna, University of New Brunswick
• Feed development for American eel nutrition in eel aquaculture by Sean Tibbetts, PhD. Research Officer, Applied Animal Nutrition, Nova Scotia Agricultural College
• Contribution of fingerling eels, grown from elvers, to the Eel Hibernation Study by Ben Speers-Roesch, Department of Biological Sciences UNB, Saint John
• Development of Live Elver Counting Technology by Atlantic Canada Eels Inc. and Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems, Iceland
• Research on increasing water temperatures influence on the start date of glass eel fishery and recruitment abundance for American Eels in Atlantic Coastal Nova Scotia by Brian Jessop, Bedford Institute of Oceanography
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