elves

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The eel fishing season happens every spring and Maine is the only U.S. state with a significant, legal fishery for elvers.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024

The price of the elvers rebounded last year in part because of greater ease in international trading at large during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2022

Phillip Croker, of The Oval, Gloucester, was charged with unlawfully luring elvers - baby eels - towards his net at Oldbury tidal sluice gate on the River Severn on 14 March 2019.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2021

Lovers engraved their names on tokens, the tide carried them away; children tried to catch wriggling elvers, dropping a ha’penny as they slipped free.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2020

Eels are esteemed as an article of food, and even elvers are compressed into a sort of cake.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various