Seasoned aquaculturist and eel wrangler Sara Rademaker is doing everything womanly possible to make Mainers and their fellow Americans more comfortable with the prospect of eating Anguilla rostrata.

Rademaker owns American Unagi, a unique land-based American eel farm currently operating Hancock County. She taps Maine’s highly regulated elver fishery between March and June, when these baby glass eels migrate from their saltwater birthplace near Bermuda north into Maine’s freshwater rivers to mature. Rademaker and her crew grow eels year-round to market size (which can range from eight months to two years depending on the cook’s preference) in a series of recirculating well water tanks housed at the University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin…

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