[metalman]

glass eals are sold to "buyers" for 5000-10000/lb, and a big chunk more money goes to government, customs, and airline people, as they must be flown out on jets from Halifax, which is the main international airport in Atlantic Canada to there destination in Japan. I have seen the rocks in rivers turning blue from all the glass eals heading down stream, and other people talk of much larger migrations, but like so many things, they are going extinct now. Why pan for gold, when it will swim right into your net, but it's not the fishers fault that there is a market, and "facilitation" from the very people who are supposed,ha!,ARE! catching the smugglers, catching them, and no doubt taking them out for dinner to discuss ....other markets, right.