BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 7, 2020
A week after Maine’s annual commercial baby eel fishing season got under way, prices for the lucrative catch are the lowest they have been in the past 10 years. The average price paid to baby eel fishermen in Maine this past week is $512 per pound, which is roughly $360 lower than the lowest average annual price fishermen have received in the past decade. Maine is the only state that has a significant legal fishery for baby eels.