It is their juvenile form that has turned an odd-looking, slippery fish into an expensive commodity. Elvers are now Canada’s most valuable fish. Driven by demand in Asia, glass eels can fetch thousands of dollars per kilogram (approximately a one-litre bottle full)—even sometimes more than $5,000 per kilogram. In 2022, fishers in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick earned $39 million from 7,557 kilograms of elvers harvested, according to DFO.
Yeah that kind of shit is nearly causing the European population of eels to disappear from rivers :-/
Too much fishing the larvae and there’s not much back to the continent.
Don’t worry, it’s just a name. They are mostly plastic now.
The Walrus has awoken. God help us all.
Great way to over fish a fishery
It’s an issue here. The methods theu use are not sustainable. They are going to wonder why eels are hard to find in a decade. Like they did with the cod. Fucking short sighted greedy pillagers.
In a decade? Eels were already hard to find a decade ago. At least where I live.
I haven’t been looking for eels. This doesn’t surprise me.
We have fucked over our eel populations selling them in to Asia, and our ‘whitebait’ by over harvesting here in NZ
