As the price of eels went up, the few elvers in Maine began to experience poaching and other issues due to all of the money involved. Alison Hudson investigates what elvers have had to do in order to do their work.

Darrell Young wasn't making a lot of money as a fisherman, but then everything changes when a little-known fishery suddenly becomes lucrative. When a government commission tries to shut that fishery down, Darrell decides he has to do something to save it, even if that means leaving Maine for the first time.