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MPs in Ottawa heard 'alarming' accounts Thursday of failed Canadian government efforts to thwart the international black-market fishery for baby eels, or elvers, earlier this year.
The area was once teeming with endangered eel population. Click to read more. The eel population was once thriving in the marine habitats of Somerset, England.
The federal government may cut the commercial elver quota by 14 per cent this year to increase Mi'kmaw access to the lucrative Maritime fishery for baby eels.
Eels were once so abundant that they were considered a pest, but today the ancient creature is threatened by human activity and risks disappearing altogether, scientists and environmentalists warn. How have eel populations changed? Eels appear in human mythology and ancient art, and their bones have been found in tombs…