Richard Cook has the right idea and is sending his elvers to Lough Neagh, a serious eel fishery just outside Belfast He then buys them back when they’re grown, to smoke them at his successful Severn and Wye Smokery, situated in Gloucestershire on the edge of the Royal Forest of Dean, between two of England’s most celebrated salmon rivers. So he doesn’t just smoke eels; his smoked wild salmon appears on many restaurant menus.
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