American Unagi Built a $10 Million Shortcut for Sushi Eel - Then the Math Bit Back

Sara Rademaker turned a basement tank into America’s largest commercial eel farm and cut thousands of miles from a strange seafood supply chain. The biology worked. The product won. But a $10 million plant, expensive debt and the brutal timing of scale-up left a sharper lesson for anyone trying to rebuild food infrastructure at home.