A week and a half after Wine Harbour Fisheries was ordered to pull its baby eel — or elver — nets out of the water, poachers are at work on the Liscomb River, 170 kilometres from Halifax on the Eastern Shore.

"Our net should be here, not some illegal fisherman," says Brenda Golden, a co-owner of Wine Harbour Fisheries.

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