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Great way to over fish a fishery
It’s an issue here. The methods theu use are not sustainable. They are going to wonder why eels are hard to find in a decade. Like they did with the cod. Fucking short sighted greedy pillagers.
We have fucked over our eel populations selling them in to Asia, and our 'whitebait' by over harvesting here in NZ
In a decade? Eels were already hard to find a decade ago. At least where I live.
I haven't been looking for eels. This doesn't surprise me.
I've been fishing (well, drinking) with people who were trying to catch eel. Usually very rare to get any for casual fishers.
Ridiculously good tasting fish when smoked though. But it's like a treat to get very rarely because of how expensive it is vs how little you get.
Never tried baby eel though. We have minimum size limits in place for catching fish here and most people have the good sense to obey them