Not surprising considering Japan consumes about 80 % of the world's bluefin tuna catch from the Mediterranean, and last month the BBC reported that
a single bluefin tuna has been sold for the highest price in the past nine years at a Tokyo fish auction: a 511 pound fish reeled in just over $ 175,000.
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From the news that
a single bluefin tuna has been sold for the highest price in the past nine years at a Tokyo fish auction to the government of Sweden allowing wolf hunting after a 45 - year ban to dwindle the population of 237 down to 210 wolves, a lot
As Ellis reports,
a single bluefin tuna fetched $ 173,600 in Tokyo, and prices of a sushi dinner for two in New York City can reach $ 1,000.
Not exact matches
But when you kill half - grown
tuna in significant numbers you are cutting off the breeding cycle... Every
single country on or in the Mediterranean, which is one of two breeding grounds for the Atlantic
bluefin tuna, does this because there is so much money to be made in it.
A
single serving of
bluefin or albacore
tuna steaks, marlin, lobster or orange roughy.
[9:07 p.m. Update The first Tokyo
tuna auction of 2013, on Saturday, saw a
single 489 - pound
bluefin sell for astonishing $ 1.76 million, according to the Associated Press *: