Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/sea-eel-population-dropped-90.html
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Sea eel population dropped 90% in 30 years
Headline isn’t correct. Article is about unagi - freshwater eel. Sea eel is anago. Pretty sure that photo is anago as well (mostly cause it looks nasty). Unagi has a delicous BBQ glaze, which is missing in the photo
The reference to the 90% eel drop in the New Yorker article is linked to a CNN article (http://travel.cnn.com/japanese-eel-joins-official-endangered-list-252811) from February 2013. So the eel in question has been decimated this way for the past three years already. Goodness knows how bad off it is now.
Despite having been declared an endangered species, it is still a popular meal. People say they want to eat it now before it disappears forever.
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