The lucrative baby eel fishery is back in Atlantic Canada after last year’s shut down over illegal fishing and violence. But long-standing disputes over rules continue to divide indigenous and commercial fishers. And as Heidi Petracek explains, recent federal changes to the fishery have done little to quell those tensions.
- Baby eel fisher calls for enforcement against illegal harvesting on N.S. river
- For Mi’kmaq fishers working within Ottawa’s baby eel rules, it’s a ‘peaceful’ season
- ‘I’ll be the last man standing’: Tensions resurface in Nova Scotia elver fishery