with sauce. The unagi restaurant first opened in 1853 and is now in its sixth generation. The restaurant uses only farmed eels, which tend to be larger and fattier than wild eels. (AP Photo/Sherry Zheng)

Despite their important role in Japanese food culture, until recently very little was known about the life cycles of eels, such as where they spawned and how tiny, nearly transparent glass eels manage to travel back to their freshwater habitats in Asia and elsewhere.

Supplies depend on wild-catching the juveniles and farm raising them until adulthood, a practice that has spread from Japan to Taiwan and mainland China as demand has surged.

Tsukamoto says his discovery of Japanese eel larvae and spawning adults west of the Mariana Ridge, near Guam, in 2009 has enabled him andDescription

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