PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The industry that harvests one of the most valuable fish species in the United States is hoping for a more stable year in 2022 after two years of volatile price swings.

PORTLAND, MainePORTLAND, Maine — They’re wriggly, they’re gross and they’re worth more than $2,000 a pound. And soon, fishermen might be able to catch thousands of pounds of them for years to come.

PORTLAND, Maine — Fishermen in the U.S.'s only commercial-scale fishing industry for valuable baby eels once again had a productive season searching for the tiny fish. Baby eels, called elvers, are ...

Maine’s lucrative fishery for baby eels — also called elvers or glass eels, depending on their stage of maturity — has escaped a proposed harvest cut that could have decimated the market. At its ...

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