KAMPONG PHLUK, Cambodia--Em Phat, 53, studies his eel tanks with the intensity of a man gambling with his livelihood. For millennia, fishermen like him have relied on the bounty of the Tonle Sap ...
An eel in a water tank The decline is attributable to environmental changes and overfishing, leading to the Japanese eel's designation as an endangered species in 2014 by the International Union ...