Canadian baby eels — also known as elvers — are fished in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine and shipped live to Asia, where they are grown to maturity.
As the elver fishery season begins in the Maritimes, the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia rejects federal regulations, including a harvest logging app and Ottawa's jurisdiction over the Indigenous fishery, citing its own management plan authorized under treaties. The federal government had previously scrapped a quota redistribution plan after backlash from harvesters.
