As glass eels leave the open ocean to enter estuaries and ascend rivers they are known as elvers. This migration occurs in late winter, early spring, and throughout the summer months. Some elvers may remain in brackish waters while others ascend rivers far inland.

In this May 25, 2017, photo, baby eels, also known as elvers, are held in Brewer, Maine. If you’ve ever read a story in the news about elver fishing season, you’ve probably seen some variation of this line: “Maine’s the only state in the U.S. with a significant fishery for elvers.”

Elvers, often fried, were once a cheap dish in the United Kingdom. During the 1990s, their numbers collapsed across Europe. [41] They became a delicacy, and the UK's most expensive species. [42] Eels, particularly the moray eel, are popular among marine aquarists.

…leptocephali are transformed into so-called elvers, which are bottom-dwelling, pigmented, and cylindrical in form. They arrive in coastal waters as glass eels and begin to swim upstream in freshwater streams in spring.

Apr 4, 2024 · HALIFAX — Tiny, translucent baby eels, called elvers, are back in the news after two Mi’kmaq men from Nova Scotia reported being detained by federal fisheries officers and then left far...

May 28, 2023 · Baby eels, called elvers, are often worth more than $2,000 per pound because of how valuable they are to Asian aquaculture companies. That makes them one of the most valuable fish species in the U.S.

Jan 3, 2020 · Filmed at the peak of a veritable gold rush, Elvers peels back the curtain on a black market in the United States to reveal a tragedy of the commons. Freshwater eels are a highly-coveted delicacy...

Every spring, billions of elvers — skinny, translucent, wriggly creatures a few inches long — migrate into freshwater ecosystems, from Greenland to Maine to Haiti, after hatching as larvae in the Sargasso Sea, a massive area around Bermuda defined by circulating currents. Eels play vital roles in aquatic ecosystems, though dams have impeded ...

Feb 6, 2024 · The tiny baby eels, which are often worth more than $2,000 per pound, are also called elvers. They are a critically important link in the worldwide supply chain for Japanese food. They are harvested from rivers and streams in Maine, sold to aquaculture companies and raised to maturity, then resold as food.

The meaning of ELVER is a young eel; specifically : a small immature catadromous eel chiefly of fresh and brackish water.