Japan hotel farms nontoxic puffer fish with hot spring water

A hotel operator in northeastern Japan is one of a small number of companies that have launched businesses in depopulated rural areas to farm the much-prized delicacy torafugu, or tiger puffer fish, using tanks filled with hot spring water.Torafugu, an expensive delicacy in Japan, raised in this manner is free of the toxins that require the fish to be prepared by licensed chefs and also grows much faster than torafugu farmed at sea, the usual method, according to the operator, Akita Kyoei Kanko.It started offering full-course meals based on the fish, including thin slices of sashimi -- the …READ FULL ARTICLE