
The Japan Times - May 6, 2004... "Our kue is genuine Kishu fish," ....Kue have almost been fished out of existence and are called "phantom fish." Farming of this fish was considered hard because fertilized eggs were difficult to obtain since the kue undergoes a sex change from female to male. The laboratory established the technology to cultivate kue, first raising young kue at Shirahama for six months and hauling them by ship to its farm in Amami Oshima, Kagoshima Prefecture.