Slashdot Mirror
Completely Farm-Bred Unagi, a World First
JoshuaInNippon writes "Japanese scientists at the National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Fisheries Research Agency have reported that they successfully completed an artificial cultivation cycle for unagi, or eel — a world first. Unagi is a traditional delicacy in Japan, and can commonly be found in baked form at sushi restaurants. The fish has long been caught either matured, or still young and then fattened on farms. Sadly, as a result, natural stocks of unagi have plummeted in recent years. However, the research news indicates a future method to completely farm breed the tasty creature in mass quantity. Good news for sushi lovers, Japanese businesses, and wild eel alike."
They can farm-grow total awareness now? /got nuthin'
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
I love unagi. This makes me happy on the inside. I'm honestly a little surprised it's taken this long to farm them, but I suppose their needs are rather different than most farmable fish.
Good news for sushi-lovers, Japanese businesses, and wild eel alike.
In the US Pacific Northwest, it has been found that farm raising salmon significantly hurt the wild populations.
Some of those farmed fish can escape affect the gene pool!
...deelicious
I saw a couple minutes of an episode of Dirty Jobs recently. At first I thought Mike Rowe was sifting through a table of entrails. It was actually a table full of slime and Unagi. Apparently they excrete slime.
Salmon farm fishing is a disaster. Shrimp are not much better. I don't know how the tilapia production is fairing. Tilapia are not predators like salmon, so I imagine it might be better, but I have no idea.
Answer: stop eating fish. Sorry.
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
watch iron chef. i swear that culutre would eat anything, they make fish ice cream for cripes sake.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
FTA: "...a means to save the animal from overfishing and possible extinction have been found. "
Actually, it's cheaper and better to simply stop fishing for them altogether for a few years. Just leave them alone and they'll come back reasonably quick, if you haven't, y'know, BUILT OVER their spawning beds or anything.
[End Of Line]
I guess there's a small lamprey of hope for this fishery.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
hentai!!
Maybe now I'll be able to get properly prepared fresh eel instead of that frozen, precooked, and precut crap that's reheated in a toaster oven and covered with sesame seeds.
Answer: stop eating fish. Sorry.
Partly, but not completely. I highly recommend the book "Bottomfeeder" that covers this topic quite well:
http://www.tarasgrescoe.com/excerpt.html
The author recommends the following kinds if you want to eat sustainably:
There are also many ones that he recommends with provisos (e.g., shrimp, when farmed, are often treated with chemicals and shrimp farms are seriously messing many of the world's poorest countries (e.g., Thailand); farmed shrimp from Mexico though are actually one of the most responsibly produced).
In general though a lot of the fish stocks are close to collapse in many parts of the world.
Highly recommend you check out the book, and at only ~300 pages, it's quick, informative read.
The OP mentions sushi and unagi. Unagi is traditionally served on a bowl rice in a donburi style, not as sushi. .. one is from the sea.
You shouldn't be able to find unagi in a Japanese sushi restaurant in Japan. You should find anago. One is from a river
Western sushi shops sell unagi since anago is rarely exported from japan.
If you think root beer tastes like the dentist's office, I'd say you're drinking the wrong root beer . . . and you should seriously reconsider allowing your dentist to put you under at your next cleaning.
Unagi is a key ingredient in Unagi Pai, which I think is the yummiest cookie made with ground-up eel bones in the whole world. :)
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
So is *this* finally an example of something the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture is in charge of? Because I know we ruled out their authority with respect to Gundum.
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
now if they can only do the same thing for bluefin tuna, while it's still extant.
私のホーバークラフトは、鰻でいっぱいです。
... like the body or the subject!)"
Does slashdot not like Japanese?
"Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment
wake me when they can clone vending machine panties.
Eel 8-[
The problem with farmed fish is that their environment is not as varied and robust, as diverse, as the natural one they evolved to thrive in. Which is why salmon farms, for example, breed unhealthier fish, and not infrequently collapse. Even land farms turn into incubators for very serious diseases, like mad cow etc.
Free range farming is the most sustainable. When the eel population collapses, there's more going wrong than just less eels for our sushi. The canary in the coal mine problem isn't fixed by simply keeping canaries in zoos.
--
make install -not war
Watashiwa unagi da.
It is okay to laugh. Thank you, linguists!
Hell yeah, unagi is my absolute favorite sushi of all time. If you've never had it, find a good sushi place and try it (emphasis on 'good'). And since it's actually served cooked, you wussies can't complain :P It's also served with an absolutely delicious teriyaki sauce.
Close behind that one: ama ebi ^_^
"I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist"
Unagi infestations are actually a HUGE problem along the U.S. gulf coast! A long time ago, some enterprising farmer tried raising unagi for the Japanese-American market, and some managed to escape. They are now a huge problem in places like Florida and Alabama, where they outcompete and kill off native fish species, foul nets, etc. They're considered a massive pest fish and there have long been attempts at finding ways to poison them, etc.
A much better solution would be to just eat the damn things. We can export tons of these wild unagi to the Japanese if we decide to. There is currently NO shortage of them.
I've read the article and there's nothing really "tech" about it. Why exactly is this on slashdot?
If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?