The federal Fisheries Department says the arrests occurred April 20 and in the early hours of April 21 in the Meteghan area of Digby County
The federal Fisheries Department says five people from Maine were arrested in southwestern Nova Scotia last weekend for illegally fishing for baby eels.
The release didn’t say whether they would face charges, but it notes that fisheries officers seized nearly 3.5 kilograms of elvers – also known as baby eels – a vehicle, three dip nets and one fyke net. The officers returned nearly 16.5 kilograms of elvers to their river of origin, and the department says that since March 8 the Fisheries Department has arrested 95 people, seized 21 vehicles, 73.6 kilograms of elvers, 175 dip nets and 58 fyke nets.
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