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By TAKASHI AZUMA/ Staff Writer
NACHIKATSUURA, Wakayama Prefecture--A longline fishing boat recently caught a 417-kilogram tuna off the coast here, the heaviest to be landed on Katsuura fishing port, according to local fish market sources.
The enormous tuna, unloaded at the port on Jan. 24, broke the previous mark of 411 kg for Katsuura port, which was recorded in 2015. Katsuura port boasts one of the largest annual amounts of landed tuna in Japan.
The big fish was caught on Jan. 22 in waters about 180 kilometers south of the fishing port by the No. 1 Kaishin Maru longline fishing boat, based in Kawaminami, Miyazaki Prefecture.
It was the first time that I caught such a big tuna in my first voyage of the New Year, said Hiroshi Kodama, captain of the Kaishin Maru. I was surprised.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201601250046
(The tuna was purchased at auction by Yamasa Wakiguchi Tuna Co., based in Nachikatsuura, at a price of 4,650 yen ($40) per kg, or 2,094,174 yen for the entire fish, including tax.)
geomon666
(7,512 posts)and we're good to go.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Human101948
(3,457 posts)The ocean is becoming a wasteland.
The bluefin tuna, which has been endangered for several years and has the misfortune to be prized by Japanese sushi lovers, has suffered a catastrophic decline in stocks in the Northern Pacific Ocean, of more than 96%, according to research published on Wednesday.
Equally concerning is the fact that about 90% of specimens currently fished are young fish that have not yet reproduced.
Last week, one fish sold in Japan for more than £1m, reflecting the rarity of the bluefin tuna and the continued demand for its fatty flesh, which is sold for high prices across Asia and in some high-end western restaurants.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jan/09/overfishing-pacific-bluefin-tuna
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)But large bluefin tuna are exceedingly rare. I recommend a ten year ban. Chilean sea bass are more or less banned.
I have caught a lot lof yellowfin tuna, amazing both raw and cooked as steaks.
This is like killing and eating a leopard for food.
Bluefin are endangered.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)How long before they're not catching any tuna at all?
Respect for the creature who survived that long against the odds.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)The Roux Comes First
(1,299 posts)I would sure want to see some solid lab results for bioaccumulative toxins like mercury and PCBs before consuming much tissue from a fish that large and therefore old.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)Nonprofit ocean protection group Oceana took 1,215 samples of fish from across the United States and genetically tested them in order to bring us the following astonishing facts:
59% of the fish labeled "tuna" sold at restaurants and grocery stores in the US is not tuna.
Sushi restaurants were far more likely to mislabel their fish than grocery stores or other restaurants...
....84% of fish samples labeled "white tuna" were actually escolar, a fish that can cause prolonged, uncontrollable, oily anal leakage.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/59-of-the-tuna-americans-eat-is-not-tuna/273410/
riversedge
(70,242 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)Big fella.
hunter
(38,317 posts)saturnsring
(1,832 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Sigh.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I think something that majestic should be free...I'm not against eating tuna, but I'd rather know there was such a creature still free rather than dead on a dock.
NickB79
(19,253 posts)Will we hand out a record to the asshole that catches the last bluefin as well?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and don't spare the spices!
yuiyoshida
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