Maine elvers hit a new high: $2,608 per pound

[jpak]

https://www.centralmaine.com/2018/03/30/maine-elvers-hit-a-new-high-2608-per-pound/

The price of baby eels in Maine is soaring to record highs at the start of a season in which buyers expect to pay more for the valuable fish.

Baby eels, called elvers, are an important part of the worldwide Japanese food trade. Maine fishermen harvest them from rivers and streams so they can be sold as seed stock to Asian aquaculture companies.

The Maine Department of Marine Resources says on Friday that the average price per pound to fishermen was $2,608. The most elvers have ever sold for in a full season was $2,172, in 2015.

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They are going to wipe them out.

[Canoe52]

1. $2,608 a pound? Im in the wrong business!

[SeattleVet]

2. Article from last June in National Geographic:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/glass-eel-elver-trafficking-fishing-unagi/

Big money, big business, lots of cheating and corruption.

At some point it will all have to collapse in on itself.

[NeoGreen]

3. Only when...