The March 28 ruling from Justice Paul Favel says the quota transfer for the 2023 season away from Shelburne Elver Ltd. and South Shore Trading Co. Ltd. was “procedurally unfair.” The companies ...

Brian Giroux of licence holder Shelburne Elver, one of two commercial outfits behind the court challenge, acknowledged the ruling is in some ways a moot point, given it deals with a season that is two ...

HALIFAX - Two commercial fishers harvesting baby eels under new federal rules say they felt they had to stop fishing on Sunday night when a large group of Indigenous harvesters arrived at the ...

HALIFAX — The fishing season for baby eels is set to begin in the Maritimes, but at least one First Nation says it won't abide by federal rules that limit the lucrative catch. In a March 5 ...

cbc.ca At the riverside, a Mi’kmaw fisherman will defy DFO’s elver plan Posted: March 24, 2025 | Last updated: March 24, 2025 Matthew Cope plans to fish for baby eels in the coming weeks, but ...

He expects to be stopped, and even arrested by fisheries officers, as he was last year during an elver seizure at a transport facility in Dartmouth, N.S. "I'm going to tell them what I always tell ...