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Slicks Eels Business Bets on Potomac River Catch
Ted Slick 36 of Fairview Beach fires up a 24 foot boat to fish for American eels from the Potomac. He runs a family operation using 250 pots and sells live eels to regional buyers who ship them to European and Asian markets. Eel prices run about 50 cents to 85 cents a pound with a strong year round demand.
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Fairview Beach
Ted Slick
Slick
King George
Spotsylvania County
Karen
Stacy
Gordon P. Hallock
Maryland Seafood Marketing Authority
Scandinavian
Japan
Hallock
National Marine Fisheries Service
Virginia
Potomac River
Potomac River Fisheries Commission
Karen Slick
Ted