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Originally Posted by Finaddict
When I lived on the New Jersey coast back in 1994, the newspapers had constant reports of nets being strewn across the rivers when eel elvers would be born in the estuaries, those nets would catch millions of baby eels and all those baits would head over seas for the Asian markets. There was a lot of screaming by the recreational fishing community, but no action. Today, I wonder if those nets still block the estuaries in Southern Jersey, although there probably are not enough eels left for that market to target ...
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1st, the eels aren't born in the estuaries they are born in the open ocean and then they migrate inshore. 2nd, NJ no longer has an elever fishery, only two or three states do, NH and ME does and there may be one other. I don't have my notes handy.