OTTAWA—Back in 1996, Louis MacDonald was among the first fishermen to acquire a license from Canada to catch baby eels. Over the decades, he has hired 20 people to catch and ship them to East ...

While practising law, Holland wanted to get into the fishing business. His first plan was to build a freshwater smolt ...

This episode will explore the eating of baby eels, called angulas in Spain. They are now a luxury food item, served in high-end restaurants and settings. Eels weren’t always a food of the elite. We ...

Narrator: This is the most expensive fish in Japan. In January 2018, a kilogram of these baby eels cost around $35,000. That's more than bluefin tuna, and almost as much as the price of gold at ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Angulas are the young of the European eel. They are a delicacy in Spain, where a single kilogram can reach thousands of dollars at auction. Angulas are tiny.

Were Rempel and the rest of Canada’s potato farmers to cease sending their products south in the event of a tit-for-tat, 25 ...

DESCRIBED as “liquid gold”, baby eels or elvers are among the most valuable aquatic creatures in the world, with their price ranging from US$2,000 to US$15,000 per pound. “It’s just like ...

In May 2018, fisheries officers in Nova Scotia received a tip about someone emailing local fishers, offering to sell 100 kgs of baby eels at a fraction of the going wholesale price. Knowing they ...

Ottawa delays meetings for unpopular plan to redistribute baby eel quotas Monitoring on a river outside Halifax has shown elver numbers are above the "long-term median value" and 2018 science ...

Baby eels, or elvers, swim in a plastic bag after being caught near Brewer, Maine, May 25, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Robert F. Bukaty HALIFAX — After a barrage of criticism over a plan to ...

VSO provides his baby eels and has taught him how to raise them. Eels are in high demand in Cambodia and elsewhere, said Sum Vy, 38, a coordinator at VSO, so they’re profitable. When fishermen ...