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ELLSWORTH — Maine’s elver fishing will wrap up this week as the catch limit for Maine harvesters nears its allotted quota well before the official June 7 end to the

Charlene D’Avanzo: What’s in your mind’s eye when you imagine New Jersey? It’s probably not a wilderness larger than most national parks – but that’s what is there and it’s called The Pine Barrens. A recent PBS program featured this forested land still so undeveloped people call it wilderness. And it’s big – nearly the…

Elvers, or baby eels, are sold to fish farms in Asia, where they are grown to market size. It's a lucrative fishing industry that has been marred by controversy.

Stockton Springs elver fisherman Mel Grant said the Union River elver runs are so strong that he doesn’t bother stringing nets on the Penobscot River.

SURRY — Mere days after winter’s final snowstorm, elver season opened at noon March 22, but the tide was high for stringing fyke nets and the water cold from snow