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Man Caught Smuggling Live Elvers Worth €200,000 ($218K)
EuroWeekly News ^ | 16 Dec 2023 | John Ensor

Posted on 12/18/2023 9:19:19 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 12/18/2023 9:19:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
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el·ver
/ˈelvər/
noun
noun: elver; plural noun: elvers
  1. a young eel, especially when undergoing mass migration upriver from the sea.

2 posted on 12/18/2023 9:21:25 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: nickcarraway

What the heck is an elver?


3 posted on 12/18/2023 9:21:35 PM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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A baby eel.


4 posted on 12/18/2023 9:22:08 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: ransomnote

OK, you answered my question as I was posting it. Thank you.


5 posted on 12/18/2023 9:22:26 PM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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Did not know either. Learn something new every day.


6 posted on 12/18/2023 9:25:21 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: nickcarraway
LOL!! Read it quickly and thought it said live elves
7 posted on 12/18/2023 9:34:34 PM PST by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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To: nickcarraway
Elver is short for Keebler Elf.


8 posted on 12/18/2023 9:35:09 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: TheCipher

Elf trafficking is one of the unspoken problems of our time.


9 posted on 12/18/2023 9:42:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

https://youtu.be/grA5XmBRC6g?t=37

My hovercraft is full of eels.


10 posted on 12/18/2023 9:46:02 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up.)
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To: Reno89519

What the heck is an elver?

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One shy of a twelver,


11 posted on 12/18/2023 9:47:39 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: Reno89519

What the heck is an elver?

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One shy of a twelver,


12 posted on 12/18/2023 9:48:09 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: nickcarraway

Elver?!

Elver yourself, you brought her.


13 posted on 12/18/2023 9:52:10 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Reno89519

Most of us asked the same question. I was expecting a few Elvis wise cracks here.


14 posted on 12/18/2023 9:53:02 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: ransomnote
a young eel, especially when undergoing mass migration upriver from the sea.

Ha. I managed to read it wrong the right way. I read it as eels at first then realized I wasn't reading eels, then wondered what the heck an elver was. And then I thought it was a typo for Elves and it was a Babylon Bee article. But it wasn't.

15 posted on 12/18/2023 9:54:47 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: nickcarraway

This very long article answers everything you want to know about the Elver market.

Why Maine Is The Only State In The US With A ‘Significant’ Elver Fishery
Maine Public | By Nora Flaherty
Published May 1, 2018 at 5:59 AM EDT

That’s when the European Union banned all exports of European eel. (European eels are now listed as critically endangered, and Japanese eels endangered.)

While Maine is the only state with a commercial elver quota, it’s also legal to fish elvers in South Carolina and sell them. But a very small number of people do it, and the volume of elvers they catch is very small.

So, that’s why you read that Maine is the only state with a “significant” elver fishery.

It is a very lucrative highly regulated business in Maine and with that regulated business comes corruption and crime.

There is also a large urchin market from Maine that get processed here and the roe shipped to Aisa.


16 posted on 12/18/2023 9:58:10 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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Keebler Elves are already short and have no diminutive form.


17 posted on 12/18/2023 9:59:31 PM PST by Waverunner
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To: Steven Scharf

Oops, forgot the link

https://www.mainepublic.org/business-and-economy/2018-05-01/why-maine-is-the-only-state-in-the-us-with-a-significant-elver-fishery

and one on urchins

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/fisheries/maine-sea-urchin-industry/97-64ccaed3-143d-464f-a273-7552f7a66eb8


18 posted on 12/18/2023 9:59:35 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: DesertRhino
Alas, you beat me to it. I was hoping the perp was piloting a hovercraft, but no, it was merely "a rental van which was parked at a service station".

It's so hard to find good help these days.

19 posted on 12/18/2023 10:03:06 PM PST by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: dayglored

LOL....


20 posted on 12/18/2023 10:08:25 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up.)
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