Officials made 53 arrests and seized 123 kilograms of baby eels, 28 dip nets, 46 fish traps, four vehicles, a trailer and more than $15,000 in cash
Fisheries officers seized 113 kilograms of baby eels worth around $500,000 during a recent inspection outside Halifax in an effort to crack down on illegal harvesting.
The department closed the fishery for baby eels, known as elvers, in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia for 45 days on April 15 after reports of poaching and of violence among fishers. Elvers are worth more than $4,000 per kilogram; they are fished at night and flown live to Asia where they are grown for food.
The arrest figure is an increase of 35 people over the 18 initially reported on Wednesday. The new numbers also show that 13 more dip nets have been confiscated since last week’s report, along with 24 more fyke nets and an additional 116.5 kilograms of elvers. Indigenous fishers, meanwhile, have said they have a treaty right to fish for elvers and aren’t subject to the federal closure.
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