Glass Eels Fishing - A Small Side Hustle

When pat started fishing for glass ells in the late seventies and eighties, there were no regulations at all. Then as interest picked up in the fishery, the government put some limits on the overall catch. But things started to get wilder and wilder out there. And fishermen got a little nasty. People would dump you nets. People wo steal you nets. people would cut your nets. We had a thing where i had five nets an one river cut one night. Of course, id built so many that i just kept replacing em next day. Thats i said, this is what we do, guys. And that's what we did at the time.