A week and a half after Wine Harbour Fisheries was ordered to pull its baby eel — or elver — nets out of the water, poachers are at work on the Liscomb River, 170 kilometres from Halifax on the Eastern Shore.
“Our net should be here, not some illegal fisherman,” says Brenda Golden, a co-owner of Wine Harbour Fisheries.
Golden is looking under the Liscomb River bridge where a fine mesh net supported by floats stretches into the black foamy water.
She has no doubts it’s there to catch hugely valuable, tiny, translucent “glass eels” that are shipped live to Asia and grown for food. They
