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Federal officials are considering handing over to First Nations a much greater portion of the lucrative but highly fraught Maritime fishery for baby eels by slashing the quotas of commercial outfits that have long held licences in the industry.
Disclosure documents filed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Federal Court reveal the breadth of unauthorized Indigenous harvesting in the chaotic and aborted 2023 Maritime fishery for baby eels or elvers.
Vinick is a board member for Friends of Toki, the executive director of the Whale Sanctuary Project & was former project manager for the Keiko Project.
A week and a half after Wine Harbour Fisheries was ordered to pull its baby eel or elver nets out of the water, poachers are at work on the Liscombe River 170 kilometers from Halifax on the Eastern Shore.
The order prohibiting fishing signed by the Fisheries and Oceans Minister Saturday says there's been a significant amount of people fishing for eel "outside the authorized fishery"