Despite a federal ban on harvesting baby eels, fishers from Peskotomuhkatik travelled north of the border to exercise their treaty rights.

Adam Newell from Peskotomuhkati Tribe, Sipayik, located in the state of Maine, said the ban doesn’t concern him.

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