PORTLAND, Maine — May 21, 2013 — Regulators are deciding how best to regulate Maine’s lucrative American eel fishery.
The eel management board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is voting Tuesday on proposed new regulations. The three options are to keep the status quo, close the fishery or set a catch quota.
The vote is being held at the commission’s spring meeting in Alexandria, Va.
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