Eel-a-Meal Is Too Hot in Japan; The Shack Gets Its 15 of Fame

TORRID EEL APPEAL: The appeal of eel meat in Japan has turned the life and times of our American eel into hell on Asian-made wheels. The demands for eel meat in downtown Tokyo alone are enough to denude much of our Eastern Seaboard of its already fully failing eel population.

A recent article in The Economist explains that 70 percent of the world’s eel harvest is rushed to Japan – the other 30 percent arrives more slowly.