Kiyoshi Kimura, head of restaurant chain Sushi Zanmai, purchased a bluefin tuna for a record Y56.5 million on Jan. 5. Photo courtesy of: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.
I am not sure if read my post last January (2011) where, at that time, the highest price was paid for a bluefin tuna in Japan – $397,000 US; well that record has now been shattered! On January 20th, just over a year after the last record was set, $736,700 US was paid for 269kg (539 lbs) bluefin tuna. This is a shocking amount of money to pay and once again clearly illustrates the rarity of this once abundant fish in our oceans, and only serves to outline how overfished our oceans truly are. Very sad state of affairs.
If you haven’t seen the END OF THE LINE yet, which discusses the state of our oceans and what the collapse of the ocean environment will mean to mankind, then I would get the video and watch it, soon.
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