It is their juvenile form that has turned an odd-looking, slippery fish into an expensive commodity. Elvers are now Canada’s most valuable fish. Driven by demand in Asia, glass eels can fetch thousands of dollars per kilogram (approximately a one-litre bottle full)—even sometimes more than $5,000 per kilogram. In 2022, fishers in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick earned $39 million from 7,557 kilograms of elvers harvested, according to DFO.
It’s an issue here. The methods theu use are not sustainable. They are going to wonder why eels are hard to find in a decade. Like they did with the cod. Fucking short sighted greedy pillagers.
In a decade? Eels were already hard to find a decade ago. At least where I live.
I haven’t been looking for eels. This doesn’t surprise me.