OTTAWA—Back in 1996, Louis MacDonald was among the first fishermen to acquire a license from Canada to catch baby eels. Over the decades, he has hired 20 people to catch and ship them to East ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Angulas are the young of the European eel. They are a delicacy in Spain, where a single kilogram can reach thousands of dollars at auction. Angulas are tiny.

In May 2018, fisheries officers in Nova Scotia received a tip about someone emailing local fishers, offering to sell 100 kgs of baby eels at a fraction of the going wholesale price. Knowing they ...

But his legacy could very well be the lucrative baby eel industry he started in Canada under the most modest of circumstances, keeping the tiny, squirmy critters he had plucked from cold New ...

HALIFAX — Federal Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier has shelved a controversial proposal that would have shifted baby eel quota away from longtime licence holders to their employees. In December, ...

Some longtime holders of licences to fish for lucrative baby eels are still facing quota decreases under Ottawa’s latest proposals, after battling against shifting their catch to former employees.

Baby eels, or elvers, swim in a plastic bag after being caught near Brewer, Maine, May 25, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Robert F. Bukaty HALIFAX — After a barrage of criticism over a plan to ...

But his legacy could very well be the lucrative baby eel industry he started in Canada under the most modest of circumstances, keeping the tiny, squirmy critters he had plucked from cold New Brunswick ...