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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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| thoreau wrote: |
| �There are no large tuna anymore. There were bluefins of 250lb in Japanese fish markets when I went there four years ago � there are none now. A third of the catch is undersize.� |
Here's a more recent source from Jan. 2009:
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TOKYO �
A tuna caught off Oma, Aomori Prefecture, was on Monday sold for 9.63 million yen at the Tsukiji fish market�s first auction of the new year.
The 128-kg tuna was bid for by buyers from Japanese and Hong Kong sushi restaurants who later divided the tuna into two, marking the highest price in the past eight years. According to market officials, 2,775 tuna, weighing more than 100 kg, were auctioned. |
http://virtualreview.org/japan/zoom/882507/business--tuna-sells-for-y963-million-at-tsukiji-fish-market
(100kg is around 220 pounds - those are large tunas). |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:42 am Post subject: |
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| visitorq wrote: |
(100kg is around 220 pounds - those are large tunas). |
They are rare exceptions, not the rule.
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| in 1970 it was common to catch tuna weighing from 270 � 310 kilograms |
http://afishblog.com/?p=93
If you think 2000+ mature tuna in the worlds oceans amounts to a lot (out of a yearly global catch of c.30.000 tonnes), do remember that the same amount of people fit easily into a single school gymnasium.
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| There used to be bluefin tuna in waters near Denmark. They were so abundant and landings so high that the first tuna cannery could be opened in 1929 at Skagen. In the 1950s, bluefin tuna weighing 100 kg and more were often caught with hooks in the �resund and Kattegat. When the fishery in northern European waters (mainly the North and Norwegian Seas) was at its high point in the mid-1950s, fishermen in Norway, Denmark, Germany and Sweden landed in total ca. 15,000 tonnes per year. But the "tuna adventure" ended in the mid-1960s. Today bluefin tuna are extremely rare in the North Sea and Norwegian Sea |
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081107143614.htm
Fortunately though VQ is only a hogwon clown and not in charge of conserving the worlds resources  I'm outta here |
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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:39 am Post subject: |
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| nautilus wrote: |
| visitorq wrote: |
(100kg is around 220 pounds - those are large tunas). |
They are rare exceptions, not the rule.
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| in 1970 it was common to catch tuna weighing from 270 � 310 kilograms |
http://afishblog.com/?p=93
If you think 2000+ mature tuna in the worlds oceans amounts to a lot (out of a yearly global catch of c.30.000 tonnes), do remember that the same amount of people fit easily into a single school gymnasium. |
Yeah, that was from a single day's auction, Einstein. 2000+ fish X however many auctions in a year = an abundant amount of tuna.
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| Fortunately though VQ is only a hogwon clown and not in charge of conserving the worlds resources I'm outta here |
I don't work at a hagwon. How fitting for you to be dead wrong on your last post before you bow out. At least you're consistent. Now run along... |
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