A university in Japan announced a major breakthrough in the complete farming of highly endangered Japanese eels, claiming a world first by an academic institution. Kindai University in Osaka ...

BIBAI, Hokkaido—A data center here that uses snow to cool down its heated servers is now using the snowmelt to farm eels. Around 1,700 elvers brought in by plane from Kobe were released into ...

Seeing the potential for lucrative returns, the young man aspires to go into eel farming one day. “My ambition is to have my own eel farm but, for now, I am still in the process of learning ...

eel on rice, which is a common way to eat it. In order to reduce costs, Japan's Fisheries Agency is working on the "complete" farming of eels. Complete farming is the full-cycle aquaculture of ...

A kilogram of elvers can sell for as much as $4,500, largely because it’s virtually impossible to breed eels in captivity, and catch limits are strictly regulated to protect the species.

A kilogram of elvers can sell for as much as $4,500, largely because it’s virtually impossible to breed eels in captivity, and catch limits are strictly regulated to protect the species.