Restaurants like this can sell 40 to 50 tons of eel each year. Japanese eel, or Anguilla japonica, can be found across East Asia, but overfishing and changing habitats have caused a huge decline ...

Heads up Florida. Say hello to your new neighbor, the Asian swamp eel. The swamp eel is one of the latest — and unwelcome — invasive species seen in the Sunshine State and officials want the ...

Unagi (eel) doesn’t get much more premium than this! Nyorosuke Ginza specialises in the Kansai way of cooking unagi known as ...

The global trade is shifting focus from the critically endangered European eel to the American eel, raising new conservation ...

The Japanese eel is eaten in “kabayaki” grilled style. But it has been designated an endangered species, and larvae catches have drastically decreased in Japan in recent years.

To investigate the prevalence and consumption of endangered eels, a Yale-NUS College research team examined 327 individual eel products purchased across 86 retailers throughout Singapore. The team ...

REHOVOT, Israel, Feb. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent survey conducted by cultured seafood innovator Forsea, Ltd. reveals an openness among Japanese consumers toward eel alternatives, including ...

The offering is made with Western and traditional Japanese sweets. Eels are recreated with “nerikiri” sweetened bean paste formed into fillets. After being browned, they are placed over a ...

Ellen Ruppel Shell takes a deep dive into the facts, figures and fascinating people that swirl around the intriguing eel.

Eating eel in the heat has a long history in Japan, but it's becoming hard to do easily due to rising costs. The catch of Japanese eels in domestic rivers and lakes peaked at 3,387 tons in 1961 ...

There's room for Southeast Asian perspectives in eel science -- it's important to protect tropical anguillids from the endangerment plaguing their temperate cousins, and to explore conservation ...