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 ...

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.

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 letter ...

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 ...

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 ...

But his legacy could very well be the lucrative baby eel industry he started in Canada under the most modest of circumstances, keeping the tiny, squirmy critters he had plucked from cold New Brunswick ...

The fishing season for baby eels is set to begin at midnight in the Maritimes, but at least one First Nation says it won’t ...