Eel has been selected the Dish of the Year for its strides in sustainable farming, increasing accessibility and rising ...

Once a common foodstuff in Japan, the freshwater eel has become endangered. But its flavor and status as a delicacy makes it ...

Popular grilled eel dishes may become much cheaper and readily available due to a recent breakthrough in aquaculture ...

Consumed worldwide, eel is particularly popular in Asia, and perhaps nowhere more so than Japan, where remains found in tombs show it has been eaten on the ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese eel, a popular summertime delicacy that has become prohibitively expensive due to overfishing, has been put on the international conservation “red list” in a move that may ...

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 ...