Eel market sizzles as prices hit $2,000/lb

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Food And Farm Eel Frenzy
In this photo made Thursday, March 23, 2012, a buyer squeezes water from a net of elver while emptying a tank on the back of fisherman's truck in Portland, Maine. The baby eels are fetching the fishermen more than $2,000 per pound this year. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)