Elvers
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Ottawa’s proposed shift of elver wealth has a problem: some recipients don’t want itTension over the fishery led to violence on the province's rivers this spring, including accusations of assault and shots fired.EconomyDec 20
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Concerns raised about enforcement in baby eel fishery if licences redistributedFishers raised questions about how federal enforcement officers will cope if a proposal to increase the number of people licensed to net baby eels in the Maritimes goes ahead.CanadaDec 10
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DFO says commercial elver fishers won’t be compensated under new quota plan'She thinks she's playing Robin Hood, and in actuality, she's putting these fishermen in a worse-off situation than they currently are,' one licence-holder said.CanadaNov 25
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Nova Scotia fisher says Toronto airport elver seizure welcome — and long overdueA commercial elver fisher in Nova Scotia says he welcomes news of the significant seizure last week of baby eels at Toronto Pearson International Airport.CanadaMay 21
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Five people from Maine arrested in Nova Scotia for illegally fishing baby eelsThe federal Fisheries Department says five people from Maine were arrested in southwestern Nova Scotia last weekend for illegally fishing for baby eels.CanadaApr 24
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‘Starlight tour’: Mi’kmaq fisher allegedly dumped without boots or phone feared deathTwo Mi’kmaq fishers say they were dumped by federal fisheries officers far from home at 1 a.m. in Nova Scotia without footwear or phones.CanadaApr 3
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‘Extremely troubling’: Mi’kmaq protest Trudeau event after alleged fisher detentionsProtesters tried to shout down a news conference today in Halifax with the prime minister over the alleged treatment of two Mi’kmaq elver fishers by federal fisheries officers.CanadaApr 2
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Fisheries minister leaning toward suspending this year’s Maritime baby eel fisheryCanada's fisheries minister says she wants to shut down this year's lucrative baby eel fishery with only weeks to go before the season opens in the Maritimes.EnvironmentFeb 13
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‘A bucket and a net and you’re in business.’ Looming tensions in Maritime eel fisheryThe Department of Fisheries and Oceans closed the fishery for the tiny, translucent fish known as elvers on April 15 after reports of violence related to unauthorized fishing.EconomyDec 14, 2023
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Federal Court rules 2022 elver quota transfer to First Nations fair and reasonableThe Federal Court has rejected an attempt to overturn Ottawa's decision in 2022 to reallocate part of the lucrative elver fishery quota to First Nations.CanadaSep 1, 2023
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