A painting of eels using imprints created by an actual eel’s corpse by nature painter and writer James Prosek. We do not serve freshwater eels, also known popularly as unagi, at Miya’s because the fish’s populations have plummeted due to over-fishing and the destruction of their habitats. Unagi are mysterious fish. We know that they reproduce deep down in the Sargasso Sea where The Bermuda Triangle is located but it has been witnessed by man. The baby eels, called elvers, drift thousands of miles to grow up in streams in America, only to return to the Sargasso Sea again to reproduce and start the whole cycle again. To learn more about eels, check out James’ book eels, a book he took seven years to research and write. (Taken with Instagram)
