Canada seizes elvers worth $367,000 being exported illegally

Officers from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, abbreviated as DFO from its previous name Department of Fisheries and Oceans, with officers from the Canada Border Services Agency, seized about 109 kg of elvers at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Wednesday evening. The elvers, estimated to be worth Can $500,000 (about U.S. $367,000), were to be shipped overseas. An investigation into possible violations of the Fisheries Act is underway, a press release from DFO said. “The magnitude...