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"For example, Mitsubishi, a company which handles 35-40% of Japan’s imported Atlantic bluefin tuna, has been deep-freezing and stockpiling thousands of tons of
by myshpa 4y ago
"For example, Mitsubishi, a company which handles 35-40% of Japan’s imported Atlantic bluefin tuna, has been deep-freezing and stockpiling thousands of tons of bluefin each year, seeking to profit by selling bluefin at extremely steep prices in the future when the bluefin tuna is extinct or near extinction."
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/revealed-the-bid-to-corner-world-s-bluefin-tuna-market-1695479.html https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/revealed-t...
https://web.colby.edu/st297-global18/2019/01/21/atlantic-bluefin-tuna-a-fish-in-troubled-waters/ https://web.colby.edu/st297-global18/2019/01/21/atlantic-blu...
- nielsbot 4y agoWon't this encourage fishermen to continue fishing bluefin at higher prices? What a dark future: "Bluefun tuna is extinct in the wild but you can still eat it from Mitsubishi" And then: "Today the last bluefin tuna in the history of the world was sold for $20M to a billionaire." Something like that...
- myshpa 4y agoWe've already seen it in Futurama with the the anchovies (A fishful of dollars).
- jamiek88 4y agoThe Tuna wars, begun have they.
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y ago$20 million is a steal! One sold for $3.1 million back in 2019.
- nielsbot 4y agoamazing and awful
- throwaway2037 4y agoIn Japan, you can buy farm-raised bluefin tuna. It is nicknamed "Kindai tuna". Read more here: https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/201507/201507_05_en.html https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/201...