[CINC] BBC E-mail: Japan tuna fetches record $1.7m

[paul jr petrich]

Thanks Catherine,
 The larger the Bluefin tuna, the greater the demand ( and greater the price paid for the fish ) in the sushi market. Thus the impetus in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for Japanese worldwide fishing fleets to encourage "tuna ranching". In "ranching" as apposed to farming, Bluefin are caught prior to reproducing in their ancient reproductive regions, and fattened up in ranch style sea corrals, before shipping off to sushi markets. This "ranching" requires at least10 lbs of feed fish for every one lb of sushi produced. Local fishermen are employed to catch both the migrating tuna and the local feed fish. Once no feed fish, like sardines and anchovies are around, imported feed fish from afar  are shipped in as feed. It does not take a great degree of intelligence to figure out the "tuna ranching" system is nothing more than disaster and dead end in the making. I don't do sushi anymore.  Paul Petrich  
On Jan 6, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Catherine French wrote:

> Can't make this stuff up.
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> I saw this story on the BBC News iPad App and thought you should see it.
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> ** Japan tuna fetches record $1.7m **
> A single bluefin tuna sells for $1.7m in Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market. almost triple the record price set last year.
> < http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20919306 >
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