Maybe There Aren't Plenty More Fish In The Sea

[wagyl]

Am I mistaken? Isn't toro the fatty part of the tuna?

Haven't you heard? Fat no longer makes you fat. You should probably skip the white rice though.

I get confused. Is fructose the bogeyman today, or is it all carbohydrates. Or is it gluten?

[kurogane]

Am I mistaken? Isn't toro the fatty part of the tuna?

I got it. D for accuracy, A for effort. Zingers are fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So, are we still allowed to eat eggs this week, or are they off the health menu again?

[Taro Toporific]

People love this toxic fish...and we're eating too much of it
CNBC.com | Nov 23, 2014
The star of a Japanese dish called fugu is a puffer fish that produces toxins so deadly that it can kill if prepared improperly. Yet the delicacy is so popular that overfishing may be pushing one species of puffer to the brink of extinction, according to a report by an environmental group.
The Chinese puffer, Takifugu chinensis, is one of the top four puffer species used in the dish in Japan, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Like most types of puffer, it ingests toxin-producing bacteria that it uses as a defense against predators in the wild. The fish stores these toxins in organs such as the liver—one fish can contain enough toxin to kill up to 30 people...
...The IUCN is not connected to a government and doesn't have any regulatory power, but maintains the list as a resource to inform people about species it believes are under siege.
Data collected by the IUCN show that its numbers have declined 99.9 percent over the last 40 years. In 1969, the total Chinese puffer catch measured around 3600 metric tons, according to statistics from Sekai National Fisheries Institute in Nagasaki and the National Fisheries University in Shimonoseki City. In 1975, the catch shrank to 1600 tons.
By 2008, it hit a single ton.
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...studied the mating habits of a scaly, silver pufferfish able to rotate, capture sunlight and spread it around
the dark sea-bottom in search of females. The sparkly puffers were often stuffed and hung
in German nightclubs during the 1920s, until a cheaper glass version of the fish,
called the Mirrorball, or Discoball, became available.
--via Marvels From the Animal Kingdom! WW News | August 18, 2008

[Samurai_Jerk]

Jesus that's a rough way to go

Bumble Bee Foods, Two Managers Charged in Death of Man Cooked With Tuna

Bumble Bee Foods and two managers were charged by Los Angeles prosecutors Monday with violating safety regulations in the death of a worker who was cooked in an industrial oven with tons of tuna.

Jose Melena was performing maintenance in a 35-foot-long oven at the company's Santa Fe Springs plant before dawn Oct. 11, 2012, when a co-worker, who mistakenly believed Melena was in the bathroom, filled the pressure cooker with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna and it was turned on.

When a supervisor noticed Melena, 62, was missing, an announcement was made on the intercom and employees searched for him in the facility and parking lot, according to a report by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health. His body was found two hours later after the pressure cooker, which reached a temperature of 270 degrees, was turned off and opened.

[kurogane]

Ouch. Poor guy, eh!

[matsuki]

Whoa....that's gotta be one of the worst ways to go.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I hope for his sake he got smothered by the 12,000 pounds of tuna pretty quickly.

[Russell]

I hope for his sake he got smothered by the 12,000 pounds of tuna pretty quickly.

And I hope they didn't sell the tuna...

[Coligny]

I hope for his sake he got smothered by the 12,000 pounds of tuna pretty quickly.

And I hope they didn't sell the tuna...

Shut up and take my money...

[Russell]

But for sure, the guy was in a fine kettle of fish...

[Salty]

So long as they don`t mix the tuna while it is being steamed, it should still be just fine to eat... I don`t advise an open casket...

[kurogane]

But for sure, the guy was in a fine kettle of fish...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Great white shark dies after 3 days in Japanese aquarium

A great white shark has died after barely three days in a rare case of captivity in a Japanese aquarium.

The 3.5 meter (11.5-foot) shark, which was accidentally caught in a net in southwestern Japan on Tuesday, died early Friday, according to Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. The cause of death was under investigation.

Keeping a great white shark in captivity is extremely difficult as it needs to keep swimming constantly to get oxygen and maintain its body temperature.