MPs in Ottawa heard “alarming” accounts Thursday of failed Canadian government efforts to thwart the illegal fishery for baby eels, or elvers, earlier this year.
It included a claim that 25 tonnes of the tiny eels were flown out of Canada in illicit shipments, part of an organized crime to meet an “insatiable appetite” in China where they are grown for food.
The lawlessness even touched a Nova Scotia member of Parliament who witnessed and spoke out against widespread poaching in his riding during the springtime elver run.
“I had many constituents whose properties were being defiled, destroyed as poachers, parked and utilized their things. I had single mothers
