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Canada’s fish minister riles eel industry with talk of shutdown to handle poaching crisis

With a potential CAD 45m season in jeopardy, the Canadian elver industry says the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has rejected its offer to pay for solutions to stop poaching

By Barb Dean-Simmons | Feb. 15, 2024 17:08 GMT
Elvers or juvenile eels are in high demand in China. Photo from Canadian Committee for a Sustainable Elver Fishery
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Commercial elver fishers in Atlantic Canada say they proposed a solid idea to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) for combatting the industry's ongoing poaching crisis and protecting their multi-million-dollar legal fishery, but DFO rejected the plan [...]

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