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> two million kilograms of seafood Tsukiji handles every day ... The Fulton Fish Market, in New York City, the second-largest fish market in the world, moves on
by tjic 18y ago
> two million kilograms of seafood Tsukiji handles every day ... The Fulton Fish Market, in New York City, the second-largest fish market in the world, moves only 115 tons a year, an average of less than half a ton each working day.
These numbers don't make sense to me.
Certainly Tsukiji is bigger than Fulton, but I'm expected to believe that Fulton moves 115 tons per year ... or, what, 500 lbs of fish per day?
I imagine that Fulton moves 115 tons PER DAY, and Tsukiji moves 2,000 tons PER DAY.
Fulton doing 6% of Tsukiji is plausible. Fulton doing 0.02% is not.
- misterbwong 18y agoI think you're right. It seems the cited 115 tons/year is a mistake that is currently flowing around the internet. http://www.worldhum.com/travel-blog/item/inside_great_sushi_and_the_worlds_biggest_fish_market_20070523/ http://www.worldhum.com/travel-blog/item/inside_great_sushi_... http://www.chow.com/media/2007/6?page=7 http://www.chow.com/media/2007/6?page=7 This paper has the Fulton Fish Market moving approx. 115,000 tons per year, based on an NYT article from 2005. This puts the FFM near a much more respectable ~300 tons/day. http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/Research/wp/pdf/paper254.pdf http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/Research/wp/pdf/paper254.pdf