date:May 23, 2013
st was worth $38 million, making it the second most-valuable fishery in Maine.
The proposed regulations are the result of an assessment that concluded the American eel population is technically depleted, probably because of a combination of overfishing, habitat loss from the damming of rivers, pollution, mortality from passing through hydroelectric turbines, and possibly disease.
Separate rules are being considered for glass, yellow, and silver eels, which are all the same eel but at different