Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Fisheries officials say they seized 60 kilograms of baby eels said to be worth between $250,000 and $350,000 at a ground transport facility in Dartmouth, N.S., on Friday. In this May 25, 2017, photo, baby eels, also known as elvers, are held in Brewer, Maine. THE CANADIAN PRESSAP-Robert F. Bukaty.
The Fisheries Department says on social media that officers intercepted the shipment “based on gathered intelligence” and arrested two people.Ottawa closed the lucrative elver fishery on March 11 after violence and intimidation plagued last year’s fishing season in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.Woman who overcame addiction now dying of cancer: ‘I’ve got one last fight’
Last month, federal officials seized 109 kilograms of elvers at Toronto Pearson International Airport, which they said were also going to be shipped overseas.University of Waterloo stabbings: School attacker pleads guilty to 5 chargesChad Daybell sentenced to death for killing first wife, 2nd wife’s kidsViewed
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