Maine families and local businesses say the booming eel fishery helps keep them afloat
In Ellsworth, we stop by Finn's Irish Pub and check out The Telephone Museum
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In Ellsworth, we stop by Finn's Irish Pub and check out The Telephone Museum
Court of Appeals (File photo) MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) affirmed the prison terms on two fisherfolk caught poaching off Placer, Masbate five years ago. Dante Mahilum, skipper of the commercial fishing vessel "F/B Mika", and the boat's chief mechanic Ramon Barrios, were convicted by the Cataingan, Masbate Regional Trial Court Branch 49 to up to four-year imprisonment each for unauthorized fishing, the use of illegal fine mesh nets, and the use of active gear in municipal waters under Republic Act No. 10654, a 2014 law which amended the Fisheries Code of 1998 covering the ...
At more than $2,000 a pound, licenses are in high demand
Operation Broken Glass resulted in guilty pleas for 21 individuals implicated in illegal eel trafficking
For complex reasons, Maine is the only state with a significant 'elver' fishery