Maine eel farm is moving out of the basement and into a new home

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 26, 2022

Eight years after she first started growing eels in her basement, Sara Rademaker is about to open the country’s first eel aquaculture production facility at a business park in midcoast Maine. Rademaker’s company, American Unagi, has been operating out of the University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin since 2018, but next month the company will move to its own brand-new building in Waldoboro.