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GW
Open M
Here is a challenge for you, before you can take a holiday you MUST catch an eel elver in FRESH water, then you can go home.
Hint you wont be going home again!
kurisupisu
Just had beans on toast-imported beans and wheat, and a grand price of 100 yen!
David Varnes
Oh no, I can't eat a species into extinction in order to satisfy a totally baseless superstition!
WAAAAAH! ZURUI-YO!
sf2k
Wolfpack
This refers to an existing population but they keep eating the juvinilles ie not adults so the population plummets. Classic overfishing
Wolfpack
Is it possible to consume more than what exists?
Open Minded
@GW
Since when eels are marine ressources!
Open Minded
National day of eating an endangered species!
That!
kohakuebisu
Ah yes, that well-known eel substitute, pork.
If I were to pay whatever eel now costs, I'd have it the proper way, hitsumabushi. It's really delicious.
sf2k
What's with endangered species and eating with reckless abandon???
thepersoniamnow
For me this stuff is only edible freshly cooked.
Serrano
Price of unagi is ridiculous now.
DaDude
My wife's cousin down in Kagoshima married a guy who is the president of one of the major eel companies down there. He is mid-20s and his dad died suddenly after their wedding leaving him the company. Anyways we get a shipment of eel from him every year before the big eel day. So freakin tasty!
GW
I really cant understand why so many Japanese seem to have little or no care for marine resources.....
Japan has led the world eating tuna, eels, squid, octopus & many other resources to near extinction & few seem to give a damn, its just NUTS!
spinningplates
BTW, does anyone know of a good place to get a Falafel roll in Tokyo?
Getting tired of eating species out of existence.
garypen
Smart. Also, Chinese farm-raised eel is supposedly one of the most unhealthy foods in the world.
garypen
I was wondering why so much unagi at my local Kohyo (Aeon).
GyGene
I don’t understand why Japan doesn’t import USA catfish. I’ve been eating catfish and eel all my long life in USA. Taste, texture is very similar, with eel being a bit more oily. The catfish and eel we ate in my family were caught by my Dad and me. But now most catfish sold in USA are farm raised. I WILL NOT buy Chinese catfish.
gogogo
Don't eat endangered fish!
Christine Loughead
Fishless ocean predicted and no one will give up a 5 minute taste they like in exchange for saving the planet and a beings life .
go vegan or we all die
Peter14
It would make more sense to have a conservation day for this endangered fish rather than an eating day.
Where is the logic in fishing a species to extinction? Who is in charge of that?
Hiro
The rise of eel farms has increase in recent years. So are many other aquaculture farms now that catching them is getting a lot harder. Demand will probably keep increasing. This so call rise in prices is a good business opportunity for more people to seek their chances in the farming sector.
drlucifer
For me, cocoichiban curry helps me withstand the summer heat. Believe is something of the mind and don't need someone tell me what to believe in,
techall
Time to switch to anago (saltwater eels) not as bold taste as unagi but cover it with enough kabayaki sauce and you can hardly tell the difference. Not on the endangered list.
vanityofvanities
The conservation pressures on Japan must be a conspiracy of beef producers of U.S. to expand their sales of beef to Japan. I feel strange that cattles are free from the conservation movement. Someday, the land of America will become full of cattles. I am contributing to the conservation move. After retirement, I do not go to eel restaurants and sushi shops to save money.
Cricky
Rare foods or near extinct foods are expensive, the last Pander Steak I had cost me a fortune....but it bought me good luck! Had a heart attack, liver burst, went blind in one eye a week latter. But I had good luck!
yoshi
We should save young eels for the next generation. Anyway I want to try "kabayaki" grilled catfish.
wtfjapan
and some people thought Japan could become a responsible ocean conservationist. LMFAO
oh well when the eels and tuna are all gone theyve still got whale and dolphin meat.
Ascissor
I think I see a certain irony there.