FTFA: A bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan

Wasn't there just a meltdown around there?

Complete. Your mum couldn't earn that much even if she .............

Anna Nicole Smith in the 1990s?

give me doughnuts: Anna Nicole Smith in the 1990s?

Wrap it up, people. We're done here.

I guess the economy must be hitting Drew harder than we thought. Come on, people, buy some TF subscriptions so he isn't reduced to this

One of the last specimens of massive bluefin tuna that are slowly being driven to extinction?

We saw it happen with white tail deer. Pic from 100 years ago showed deer with massive antlers. Now, you're lucky if you see a 6 point.

Mark my words. If it keeps up, we'll end up with antlerless deer in this country, and smaller tuna in the oceans.

And some idiot American tourist is going to request their seared Ahi Tuna be well done.

I'm way too bent about the japanese fishing culture of eradication
to put up anything that isn't blatantly racist.

besides this piece explaining my butthurt

meat0918: One of the last specimens of massive bluefin tuna that are slowly being driven to extinction?

We saw it happen with white tail deer. Pic from 100 years ago showed deer with massive antlers. Now, you're lucky if you see a 6 point.

Mark my words. If it keeps up, we'll end up with antlerless deer in this country, and smaller tuna in the oceans.

This is interesting to think about and it's certainly possible.

There are enough whitetail in the U.S. for the population to never be in any danger, but as hunters take deer with large antlers, they are selecting for deer with smaller/no antlers. Give it a few hundred years and evolution will take care of the rest.

NightOwl2255: meat0918: Mark my words. If it keeps up, we'll end up with antlerless deer in this country

That can't be true. All the Fark hunters tell us they are the true shepherds of the wild and they only kill what they are going to eat on the way back to the hunting lodge.

Lol. Michigan is chock full of "Let 'Em Go, Let 'Em Grow" signs, begging hunters to not shoot small antlered deer.

There was even a problem with the northern pike size limit, you could only keep those 22" and above, problem was, the females reached that size before the males. One got to wondering where all the pike had gone, let alone the massive ones you used to be able to catch, then it occurred to them they might want to raise the size limit so the damn things could actually breed.

Perhaps, just perhaps, they should cut back the harvest of these tuna. But, scarcity only makes the problem (the amount of cash you can get for a fish that large) worse. Doesn't matter if it is from lowered harvest by mandate or as a consequence of overfishing.

RembrandtQEinstein: thats like 1.3k a pound

at those prices you know there are some biology geeks figuring out how to grow that meat in a vat

and seriously how do the restaurant patrons know? do they do a DNA test each time they eat?

if I owned a place that sold this stuff I would just lie, sell some similar fish that cost me a lot less, and make sure the money was offshore in case I got caught

Scam artists are WAY ahead of you on that one. (new window)

mcwehrle: FTFA:

"and a lot of the folks that are supporting Gov. Romney are supporting him because, well, they think he's going to win and you're going to be with the winner,"


No way, really?

This made my head asplode.

I know Rmoney is a cold fish, but 590 pounds?

Tawnos: machoprogrammer: This isn't cool. Bluefin are nearly extinct.

Safer seafood is things like sardines and yellowfin tuna.

You do know that Pacific bluefin tuna are considered "least concern", right? That means not even close to extinct.

So much derp in this thread.

The concern is over how the larger tuna are becoming harder and harder to find.

JackieRabbit: AcneVulgaris: They won't stop until there are no more blue fin tuna. Then they will start making something else extinct.

Humans are termites.

Neither will Americans. We are vacuuming the oceans so that people can have fresh seafood in Des Moines and Lubbock three meals per day if they want.

The sea-food industry never got beyond the hunter-gatherer stage of developement. For meat and poultry have domesticated and farm-raised animals, but with fish it is still netting and hooking wild species.
The equipment used may be more modern, but the strategy is still Paleolithic.