55,700 Dollars for Bluefish Tuna
Fishermen across the globe are driving the Bluefish Tuna towards extinction, making the first tuna auction of 2008 a record-breaker for Japan:
A Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner Saturday paid a record 55,700 dollars for a massive bluefin tuna in the first auction of the year at the world’s largest fish market in Tokyo, an official and media reports said.
The 276-kilogram (607-pound) bluefin tuna — caught off Japan’s northern region of Aomori — sold for 6.07 million yen (55,706 dollars) or 22,000 yen (about 202 dollars) per kilo, an official at the Tsukiji fish market said.
The final price was a record for Japan and nearly two million yen more than the previous year, he added.
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The Tsukiji market sold a total of 2,904 bluefin tuna or 176.6 tonnes Saturday, down from 3,268 or 178.6 tonnes at last year’s opening auction.
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FIshermen across the globe aren’t driving the bluefin towards extinction, comsumers who create demand are. Everyone should think about that next time they opt for maguro or toro at the local sushi-ya.
Yes, us humans should starve to save the animals! epicurus, you start skipping meals first and I’m sure the rest of us will follow.
I remember a commentator on Japanese TV joking about how they (the Japanese) should have kept sushi a secret from the rest of the world because now the Australians are eating all the fish and the Japanese have no food to eat anymore.
perhaps sushi should’ve been kept a secret from the australians.
the stuff that passes for sushi over here…
there are some good places, but a lot of it is futomaki with dry rice.
although we don’t eat a lot of tuna. we eat salmon like it’s going out of style, though.
Australia should fight for those fishes and not the whales…
Now that’s one pretty expensive fish!
Where in the article was Australia mentioned?
Yes just blame the world’s problems on Australia.. 0_o
Haha. No one is seriously blaming anything on Australia. Quit crying.
Do that maths, and check their diets, to see who’s eating the fish…. my money is on the whale killers. Australia population 21 million, Japan population 127 million.