We All Love 💕Eel Delicious 😋 Sushi 🍣

Where is the website to order some? How is that not in the video description? There should be a link for American Unagi right up top.

The glass eel fishery in Canada is licensed and enforced by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO). Currently there are 9 licenses (each employing several fishers) to harvest glass eels in tidal river estuaries in the Atlantic provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland. Elver recruitment survey of the East River-Chester,Nova Scotia, directed by DFO - it is the longest glass eel recruitment study in North America)

You probably should have mentioned the fact that we're overharvesting these eels to the point where they'll inevitably be listed as endangered. Right now, we should be harvesting fewer of them, not more, until populations are again healthy.

@@sparkeyjones6261 ??? Man o' man, this is a eal farm.

Is collecting them this way sustainable though?

@@AdaptiveReasoning they can release a few of the adults on the ocean, since from thousands of Babies just a few would reach maturity

nobody has seen eels breed? Woah

are all eels brackish ? damn. I had no idea eel farming/eel anatomy was this complex.

@@ZzdeathangelzZ this is the case for the vast majority of marine creatures. the ocean is kind of inscrutable

"I put my life savings into this shit, so if I don't figure this out quick I'm going to be poor" will bring out depths of character, competence, and ingenuity that you never knew you had. As a piece of advice to anyone reading through the comments, figure up the worst case scenario for how much money you'll need to start your business and then save up 50% more. You'll save yourself so much stress.

I remember watching the Tuna King videos from this channel, he said at the end *"If you love it, you'll teach yourself. If you don't others teach you"*

20000 eels in

Eels are tasty if u ask me better than fish

Well to be fair, the skill to cut a live eel has more to do with dealing with the blood. Here the eels were already drained before cutting, so it's less skill-intensive. And I'm all for it if it doesn't affect the taste that much if at all. That's how we get good quality stuff with lower cost and better streamlined procedure. That's progression.

The preparation they did in this video for the eel and cutting it isn't the same as Japanese level. The eels are fresh and alive in Japan. You smack a nail onto the eel's head and then start slicing it. Considering we don't have sea food markets and its limited access are only to certain areas in parts of Canada... this is an easier way to manage stock. As much as the eels are fresh... they aren't exactly 100% fresh considering they go in the freezer for transportation. Also the fact that they are smoking eel instead of having it roast over a charcoal fire combined with a good marinade/sauce does not bring out the eels full potential. Try it the Japanese way on a bed of rice. It's fucking delicious.

Japanese are over exaggerated, all you need to do is cutting 20,000 of it.

@@MrCleks plus that the japanese has a tendency to overcomplicate some things because of traditions. Look up sushi chefs filetting a salmon, takes around 1-2min.. Take a look at someone that works with industrial fish processing.. takes like 15 seconds with a cleaner result.

Dude and in Japanese culture some said that if you want to perfect dish for eel you will need a lifetime to perfect it

(That's what baby eels are called)

We do too.

At those prices.... try catfish.

You fried the eel?

I'd BBQ them!!

Helps that he has a degree from a culinary institute.. not just some random guy that tried his hand at dealing with food

@@jamesbizs Nope. Dan has culinary degree not the butcher who is self taught

@@hdjghasgaj eh i think you’re stretching that

@@jamesbizs Having culinary training or being in a culinary school doesnt usually train you in cooking much at all.

That’s why I’m slightly hesitant when politicians tell me humanity is doomed in decades. Human ingenuity is so strong and amazing that I’m sure we can get past anything

@@Soshi12005 this is just one thing that’s solved quite easily due to the fact that you can farm it. Things like Tuna on the other hand can’t be farmned and many other endangered seafood.

@@greatninja2590 to my knowledge, southern bluefish tuna only breed when they migrate thousands of miles sp breeders are using special centres that mimic the temperature, daylight, moonlight and water currents of a tuna migration. There are farms that are breeding tuna at this moment, I think Australia and Europe, but it is no where near 100% sustainable. But at least we are getting there Endangered seafood is more about laws not being able to protect fishing seasons and overfishing. Not much a private entrepreneur can do when half your competition doesn’t respect the rules or don’t have rules that protect endangered species such as shark finning in Singapore and Taiwan.

@@Soshi12005 like I said if it can’t be famned then it can’t really be solved human greed will just kill them but I guess some people consider that as human ingenuity too. I mean they are being clever in avoiding the law and making sure their competitor doesn’t get a head

Sad that not many americans will eat eels. These are top notch clean fish meat. I can eat these for months 😊

Me either, even I live in South Korea

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No it is not inspiring its coming From a hard worker for many years decades of hard work to still be a no body & when someone like this comes out of nowhere makes a business & is profitable good at it. I don't agree with it.

DANGER!!!!

SALMON SKIN ROLL

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The state of total awareness.

They don’t use steroids

yes AMERICAN FARM RAISED we all know what poison is this BS

This eel will very likely be driven to extinction by our overfishing of them before then.

@@jaredf6205 as of now, it’s a fairly sustainable harvest in the US. This is why the states that have the harvest need to self regulate now instead of later when the feds have to step in because they screwed up the pop due to unwillingness to regulate. We can have sustainable farms and wild harvests of all kinds of animals if people would regulate properly

The US is the new China. Quantity over quality

@@ericcartman106 Do you think people like to eat toxic Chinese mystery meat? They would pay for the quality. Not related to this, have a look chinese milk powder scandal.

@@rahusphere actually, by and large the Chinese export industry is top-notch, especially in terms of food quality (there are always exceptions, of course). In multiple industries across several countries, Chinese manufacturing/processing/QC standards are the new bar. The infant milk powder scandal, rice scandal etc were mostly for local consumption which is where the dodgy producers do their fleecing

@@eugenelim1436 Yeah I'll take your word for it, Mr. LIM.

@@eugenelim1436 True that.

@@robertwhitten265 lol what's that supposed to mean? Is that a discriminating assumption based on my last name?

I thought the exact oposite. No way in hell i'd put my hand in there 😂

@@lukthere2 HAHAH seems slimy tho. Thats why 😭 but i wondered if they were electric ones but i guess they aint

@@Caca990SSR You need to work on using your brain more often, they literally say they're Glass eels multiple times before the tank portion of the video..

Well they have hundreds of tiny insanely sharp teeth so good luck xD

Like looking at a hot stove, and having the sudden urge to put your hand on it.

Most eels all over the world are wild caught

@@lunix3259 I always thought unagi were farmed in China, that's why they got melamine and heavy metal and sh

@@lunix3259 True. But these are all taken before they've had a chance to spawn. This technique is being shown here as being sustainable, but here in Europe we are well aware that you are just depleting wild stocks.

@@Alexander711 Exactly. This is not sustainable. They only found a natural resource that has not been depleted. As the demand grows more will be harvested. I would be more impressed if they bred the eels.

@@geronimovision2912 In Holland the yearly total of glass eel is 2% of what it was in de 60's. This is just depleting the species and they are marketing it as a nice, sustainable way of fishing. Cant get my head around it.

Hmm. Well, livestock feed is probably dehydrated as well.

chickens and turkeys too it's a distinction without a difference. It's dry food.

Lol

Yes! It definitely is!

Pssshhh. As an Alaskan I disagree.. salmon over slime eels.

This isn’t sustainable at all, American eel populations are collapsing

🙃

To have enough food to grow faster than normal would make any animals happy and content.

Yep. Unagi is one of my favorites but I decided ten years ago I wouldn’t eat it anymore until they commercialize growing eels from eggs. Labs in Japan have successfully bred and hatched eel eggs but are have it trouble scaling up the operation to make it commercially viable. They are always a few years away. Hopefully one day soon I’ll be able to grab a delicious Una-jyu made with farm bred unagi.

Yes, I'd like to recommend a book that really showcased the eel as truly a special species, Patrik Svensson's "The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish" - "The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of the strangest creatures nature ever created. Remarkably little is known about the eel, even today. What we do know is that it’s born as a tiny willow-leaf shaped larva in the Sargasso Sea, travels on the ocean currents toward the coasts of Europe, even into the Baltic and the Swedish rivers - a journey of about four thousand miles that takes at least two years. Upon arrival, it transforms itself into a glass eel and then into a yellow eel before it wanders up into fresh water. It lives a solitary life, hiding from both light and science, for ten, twenty, fifty years, before migrating back to the sea in the autumn, morphing into a silver eel and swimming all the way back to the Sargasso Sea, where it breeds and dies. And yet . . . There is still so much we don’t know about eels. No human has ever seen eels reproduce; no one can give a complete account of the eel’s metamorphoses or say why they are born and die in the Sargasso Sea; no human has even seen a mature eel in the Sargasso Sea. Ever. And now the eel is disappearing (under 5% left today compared to 1950 when measurements were started), and we don’t know exactly why."

We also hand raise them or if you feed an eel more than 3 times it will basically become your pet they can come onto land if it’s grass and roll over so you stroke under there chins or on there stomachs they love it hahaha

@@RBNZ-lg9cy ayo what?

Thanks to youtube buddy. 😂

True haha

You saw the snow, right?

@@annee.carder6490 Yes and? Is the snow supposed to be a deterrent or something?

This isn't sustainable. The eel population in the US is demolished. They may be buying their eels legally, but it's hard to say. They could be just as easily buying black market eels contributing to their eventual extinction. I'm honestly a bit shocked they mentioned none of this.

@@matthewpearson2150 This is one of the few sources of eel avalable In America I have come across. Almost 100% of all eel I have ever had handled have been bulk bought from china or japan. I'm well aware the initial stock could have been purchased in this manner however as it's not an uncommon practice. Most seafood you consume only includes only data on which country caught or processed the fish. Most dont list the catch practices, method of harvest, feed type, if they are farmed open ocean or in tank based systems, water quality, antibiotics, hormones, if the dye used in feed is natural or artificialor remotely list the care given to the fish and the practices of the fishery itself and it's own enviromental impact and concerns from things like runoff, protection from mixing with wild stocks, protection from predators, if penbased systems use anti fueling agents on netting or go for a natural wax coating ect. I don't buy any wild fish without MSC certifications or at least a strong green rating for sustainability for my area for local catch. I'm an MSC and sustanable focused fishmonger and I look for quality sustanable farmed fish and anything that reduces the overall draw on my favorite fish is a win. I only hope this company can continue to improve and take even more steps to become a more green based and responsible fishery and strive to increase standards for both the production of their eel and quality of their product. I have a soft spot for Eels and I want the future to have fish to enjoy. Responsibly raised farmed eels is something I can get behind. Their natural habitat is prty much deleted. While I currently do not sell eel it's something I hope 2 one day. I used to sell a farmed fish that was a threatened species The farm they came from with help of their goverment would release young fish back to the waterways. Since this company started to practice responsible fishery managment and take in consideration enviromental practices that species has been making a comeback and finding it's way to my grill from the farm. Beautifull whitefish with firm flesh amazing for grilling and tacos. I love fish, and responsibly raised and farmed seafood is the future we need to feed this planet's massively growing population. I just want to do my part by educating and helping us get there.

Yeah! NHK world has a lot good docs and show especially Japanolgy plus it's that good.

It's funny how things change. When I was a kid growing up in Hong Kong, we were poor and ate a lot of eel because fish was the cheapest meat and eels were the cheapest fish. Us kids would hang out at the fish market because some eels would escape and we would catch it off the streets by the gutter of the fish market to take home and eat. Now it's a delicacy.

@@DocPetron we can't afford to buy,it's very expensive than the normal fish in our place

Ya thats part of that ignorant belief that cow farts are evil lol

You’re a gross person

It's just a toque. Anyone can wear it.

If wild fish are low, hatcheries will raise fish to maturity and release them.

Because they are taking the young eels, most of which will not reach maturity in the wild. In captivity they are all well fed and kept from pradators. This drasticly increases survival rate. As long as fisherman are careful and don't take to many young eels then the amount taken to farm won't greatly impact the wild populations.