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BLUEFIN: COCAINE OF THE SEAS

Recently, a Hong Kong restaurateur purchased one fish for $55,700 at a Tokyo fish market. This kind of feeding frenzy led Marine Biologist Barbara Tuck to call bluefin tuna the “cocaine of the seas,” and leads us to ask… Can farming save our wild fish? (#601 in the Forum)

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Along the Food Chain with Michael Olson…

BLUEFIN: COCAINE OF THE SEAS

(Food Chain Radio #601)

Recently, a Hong Kong restaurateur purchased one fish for $55,700 at a Tokyo fish market. This kind of feeding frenzy led Marine Biologist Barbara Tuck to call bluefin tuna the cocaine of the seas, and leads us to ask

Can farming save our wild fish?

Tuna are among the most magnificent fish in the sea, and the bluefin is, by most accounts, the most magnificent tuna of them all. Beginning in Japan, human kind around the world has developed a love affair with the bluefin that seems to border on the maniacal, as evidenced by the prices being paid for the red flesh of this sleek creature.

As is the case with cocaine, mania begets more mania, and consequently each bluefin tuna is now worth tens of thousands of dollars. Nothing will stop their slaughter, as there is simply too much money to be made.

Is there no hope for the bluefin? Maybe just maybe farming bluefins will allow wild bluefins to swim free and survive!

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