Tiny EELS Netting Higher Prices Than Caviar

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Baby eels, transparent, and not much bigger than matchsticks, have become more expensive than caviar in France, where they are slowly disappearing from the menus of gourmet restaurants because of huge demand in Asia.

 "The prices have risen so much this year that I'm not offering them to my customers any more," said Ramuntxo Corde, a restaurateur in Ciboure, a French village on the Atlantic close to Spain.

This year, the delicacy known in most English-speaking countries as glass eels, have topped 900 euros a kilo (535 dollars a pound).

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EWW!!! :puke:

[Dave Reynolds]

1. Thanks,

but I'm full right now.

No, really.

[oneighty]

2. Yes indeed

Eeling is a slippery business. I was in it once.

The little ones are hard to catch. Very hard.

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[Placebo]

3. eek...

harder to catch than...fishies?

[oneighty]

4. elvers

require a fike net? might be (Fiskenet)-very fine webbing -very expensive and cannot be set in swift currents. I read about it but never tried it. I did trap adult eels but in the area I was working there were not enough eels to bother with.

I have a very short story about eeling. Hee hee hee.

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[yellowdogintexas]

5. eels are a real delicacy in Spain, too. March/April is the high

season for them.

I did NOT repeat NOT eat any.