Sales of Farmed, Feminized Eels Spreading in Japan

Tokyo, Nov. 27 (Jiji Press)--Sales of cultivated feminized eels are beginning to spread in Japan, as the Aichi Fisheries Research Institute in central Japan and others have successfully developed a method to feminize eels. While over 90 pct of glass eels under cultivation become male, the method can nurture nearly all of them to become female by providing special feed. Female eels grow to t...