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Japan launch 'prince fish' catch-and-eat drive

 

Mon Nov 26, 1:03 AM ET

 

Authorities around Japan's largest lake have launched a " catch-and-eat "

drive to eliminate the bluegill as the emperor himself voiced regret

about introducing the fish.

 

Emperor Akihito, a fish expert, brought the bluegill from the United

States a half-century ago when he was crown prince, hoping to offer a

new source of food to Japan.

 

But the bluegill, once celebrated as " prince fish, " has turned into a

nuisance in Japanese rivers and lakes by feeding on native species,

leading the emperor to offer unusually personal comments of regret

earlier this month.

 

The central province of Shiga has introduced what it calls

" catch-and-eat, " encouraging people who fish bluegill in Japan's largest

Lake Biwa not to release but to eat them.

 

The prefecture's official website has pictures showing how to slice open

the fish along with recipes to make bluegill fries and cook them with

sweet-and-sour sauce.

 

" The fish taste very good, " Shiga fisheries official Kunihiko Kuwamura

said, adding there was also " bluegill sushi " offered by a private

company.

 

Bluegill is common dinner fare in the United States and is the state

fish of Illinois, where Chicago's legendary mayor Richard J. Daley

offered the fish specimen as a gift to the visiting Akihito in 1960.

 

Akihito voiced regret in a speech at a fisheries event on November 11,

saying Lake Biwa's catch had plunged due to foreign-origin fish.

 

" I brought bluegill back from the United States nearly 50 years ago and

donated them to a research institute of the Fisheries Agency, " said

Akihito, whose public remarks are usually ceremonial.

 

" Its cultivation started as there were great expectations of raising

them for food in those days. My heart aches to see it has turned out

like this, " Akihito said.

 

The Fisheries Agency says its research institute received the fish in

1960 and bred and distributed them around the country.

 

Shiga prefecture denies bluegill escaped its institute's nets. They were

first spotted swimming in Lake Biwa in 1965, according to Kuwamura.

 

Kuwamura said the prefecture has tried for years to get rid of

foreign-origin fish and that the emperor's remark " is a boon for us. "

 

" We will keep pushing ahead, " he said.