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Spring snow in Maine slows start of glass eel season

The 1,000 or so residents in the US state with licenses to catch the species landed 9,300 pounds of elvers worth $12 million in 2017

By Undercurrent News | March 26, 2018 15:39 BST
American baby eels. Photo courtesy of the US Fish & Wildlife Service.
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The harvesting season for elvers, or glass eels, started on Thursday off the coast of the US state of Maine, but cold, snowy weather is expected to delay their catch until sometime in April, the Bangor Daily News reports [...]

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