That used to be the case, the japs used to buy them to eat and some were left to grow on to see if they could breed them! but as far as i no nobody has been able to breed them, they are sold to our elver station in gloucester and we get paid buy the kilo £240 is the going price but will go higher because there isnt many going in, all are elvers are being bought for re stocking other rivers here in the uk and europe, They are great to eat about 3 inches long fried in some bacon fat for about 30 seconds. Hope this sheds some light on the subject for you guys. We were brought up buy the river se