Japanese researchers succeeded in breeding eels from eggs in a laboratory in 2010, though the process was costly as the ...

T he Japanese eel is big business. Japan alone consumes over 130,000 tonnes of the fish every year. Unlike such species as ...

At an eel restaurant near Tokyo, four friends sit down to eat a Japanese delicacy now the subject of a heated international debate as its numbers decline. The eel, hugely popular across Japan, is also ...

A researcher performing a backpack electrofishing survey in a coastal river in southern Hokkaido, Japan, where eel abundance was assessed across 105 rivers. The distribution of Japanese eels (Anguilla ...