Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/sea-eel-population-dropped-90.html
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This is disappointing (that I should stop eating it). Unagi is my favorite.
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tRump can fix that, too…
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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
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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.
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Dropped 90%? Has anyone checked the hovercrafts?
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Would you like to go back to my place bouncy bouncy?
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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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They also live in the sea - they spawn in the Philippines. An anago is a conger eel.
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This is a pretty good summary of the issue:
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my dad used to love eel - but it wasn’t the Japanese recipe.
A légpárnásom tele van angolnákkal.
No idea if that’s correct or not.
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