What Canada can learn from Maine's approach to the lucrative baby eel fishery
Authorities in Maine say they have figured out how to regulate a fishery that is so out of control in Canada, the federal government has shut it down this year — the third shutdown in five years — putting 1,100 people out of work.
![What Canada can learn from Maine's approach to the lucrative baby eel fishery](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7189814.1714509152!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/darrell-dustin-young.jpg)
![Elver fisherman, Darrell Young, and his son Dustin, tend their nets in Franklin, Maine. 2 men wearing headlamps dump a bucket of baby eels into a net.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7189814.1714509152!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/darrell-dustin-young.jpg)
Authorities in Maine say they have figured out how to regulate a fishery that is so out of control in Canada, the federal government has shut it down this year — the third shutdown in five years — putting 1,100 people out of work.