Hagfish fishery may not have much room to grow

摘要

West Coast fishermen appear to have found the limit on the hagfish fishery. Hagfish had carried dozens of fishermen through the tightest salmon fishing years in the past decade. Now, keenly aware that restrictions on salmon are likely to come and go in the future, fishermen and buyers of hagfish are looking to maintain the fishery at moderate levels. After a brief foray in the 1980s and 1990s into catching hagfish for use as leather or skins in Korea, the West Coast fishery today is largely to supplythe Korean taste for live eels, which are typically served barbecued, with a chaser of booze called soju.