I've Never Eared American Eel, but I'm Trying to Help

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The american eel is officially listed as endangered, so i felt kind of weird eating it. When you look at our use of a wild fish, our survival on the farm is over 90%. So yet we're taking a very small portion of the wild and then really being able to produce a lot more than what would have survived in the wild. Sara likes to say it's a better eel. And for me at least, still just an occasional treat.

Where eels come from is a surprisingly difficult question to answer, in large part because scientists have never actually seen them reproduce in the wild. Gastropod explains why eels are somehow still so mysterious.

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