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.
Continues...

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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.

[Takechanpoo]

look at this articles comment section.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... r-comments
its full of misunderstanding and racism toward japanese by hypocritical enlgish fools. and the hypocritical stupid english moderator is leaving it as it is.

[Yokohammer]

look at this articles comment section.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... r-comments
its full of misunderstanding and racism toward japanese by hypocritical enlgish fools. and the hypocritical stupid english moderator is leaving it as it is.

Most of those comments are by uninformed, unthinking people who just love to blame others for any reason. They're everywhere, Take-chan (even in Japan), and best ignored. You'll drive yourself crazy if you take them seriously.

[wagyl]

look at this articles comment section.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... r-comments
its full of misunderstanding and racism toward japanese by hypocritical enlgish fools. and the hypocritical stupid english moderator is leaving it as it is.

Most of those comments are by uninformed, unthinking people who just love to blame others for any reason. They're everywhere, Take-chan (even in Japan), and best ignored. You'll drive yourself crazy if you take them seriously.

This comment is so meta, I think I just reached Nirvana!

[Yokohammer]

Sometimes it is wiser to merely point to an example, rather than whupping someone upside the head with it.

[Coligny]

Sometimes it is wiser to merely point to an example, rather than whupping someone upside the head with it.

Bullet in the head works too...
Just claim it was a walker...

[Russell]

look at this articles comment section.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... r-comments
its full of misunderstanding and racism toward japanese by hypocritical enlgish fools. and the hypocritical stupid english moderator is leaving it as it is.

Most of those comments are by uninformed, unthinking people who just love to blame others for any reason. They're everywhere, Take-chan (even in Japan), and best ignored. You'll drive yourself crazy if you take them seriously.

This comment is so meta, I think I just reached Nirvana!

What next?

Shall I become meta-meta-meta?

[Mike Oxlong]

Sushi alert: Grim outlook for bluefin tuna

The latest scientific assessment paints a likely bleak future for the Pacific bluefin tuna, a sushi lovers’ favorite whose population has dropped by more than 97% from its historic levels.

A draft summary of a report by the International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean seen by The Associated Press shows the current population of bluefin tuna is estimated at 2.6% of its “unfished” size. A previous assessment put the population at an already dire 4.2%.

Overfishing has continued despite calls to reduce catches to allow the species to recover. In some areas, bluefin tuna is harvested at triple the levels considered to be sustainable.

“The situation is really as bad as it appears,” said Amanda Nickson, director for Global Tuna Conservation at The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Limits imposed after the previous estimates actually allowed some countries to up their catches, she said.

“If those managers again fail to act in a conservation-minded way this time, it may be time for other actions, such as an international trade ban or complete fishing moratorium,” Nickson said.

The independent scientists who compiled the report said improved data make them more confident in their latest estimates than in previous ones. The report is due to be reviewed by the committee in July.

The report estimated that in 2014, the total recruitment level of the fish, or the percentage of new fish that survive each year, was below 3.7 million fish, the second lowest level ever.

Under current levels of reproduction and management of the fisheries in the Pacific, the likelihood of rebuilding stocks to healthy levels is only 0.1%, the report says.

Cutting catches by a fifth would improve those odds to only 3%.

Japanese eat about 80% of all bluefin tuna caught worldwide, and stocks of all three bluefin species — the Pacific, Southern and Atlantic — have fallen over the past 15 years as demand for the luscious, buttery pink-to-red fleshed fish has soared globally.

Organizations charged with helping to manage bluefin fisheries have set a goal of rebuilding the species’ population to 6.4%, or 42,592 metric tons, of unfished levels by 2024.

But 6.4% levels for a species like the Pacific bluefin, which can live for up to 40 years, are no guarantee of a recovery. Many experts believe 20% of historic levels is the minimum size for a sustainable fishery.

The international body that monitors fisheries in most of the Pacific Ocean, the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, was unable to reach consensus last year on either short-term or long-term measures to help restore the bluefin population.

In Europe, officials agreed last month on implementing a recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

A next step by conservationists could include efforts to get Pacific bluefin tuna banned from international trading.

Pacific bluefin tuna are spawned in the western parts of the northern Pacific but migrate throughout the ocean, complicating management of catches. The population of the species is estimated to have peaked in 1960.

An earlier estimate put the 2014 population of the bluefin at 26,000 tons. The most recent reduced that estimate by 9,000 tons, to 17,000 tons.

If the population of Pacific bluefins drops much further, it may no longer be economically feasible to fish for them.

At that point, “Pacific bluefin would be considered commercially extinct,” Nickson said.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/food ... uefin-tuna

[matsuki]

Japanese eat about 80% of all bluefin tuna caught worldwide, and stocks of all three bluefin species — the Pacific, Southern and Atlantic — have fallen over the past 15 years as demand for the luscious, buttery pink-to-red fleshed fish has soared globally.

Something something, Japanese in harmony with nature, something something spiritual, zen, regrettable, etc.

How long before tuna fishing is straight up banned?

[Russell]

At a certain moment tuna will become so expensive that they'll offer whale meat as a cheap replacement...

[Takechanpoo]

those ppl, who still eat fishes and the other marine products even after 3.11, are pathetic information illiterates.

[Russell]

those ppl, who still eat fishes and the other marine products even after 3.11, are pathetic information illiterates.

?

[matsuki]

I think he's suggesting it's loaded with nuclear bukkake....I've enjoyed seafood/freshwater fish since 3.11 as I always have....in moderation. Nuclear poo aside, plenty of other nasty stuff in it that I don't care to try test my luck with.

[Taro Toporific]

Japan to exceed bluefin tuna quota amid warnings of commercial extinction
Conservationists call on Japan to abide by fishing agreements after reports annual quota will be exceeded two months early
theguardian.com | Monday 24 April 2017
Conservation groups have called on Japan to abide by international agreements to curb catches of Pacific bluefin tuna after reports said the country was poised to exceed an annual quota two months early – adding to pressure on stocks that have already reached dangerously low levels.
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[matsuki]

Aiko Yamauchi, the leader of the oceans and seafood group for WWF Japan, said it was time to penalise fishermen who violated catch quotas. “The quotas should be mandatory, not voluntary,” Yamauchi said. “That’s why the current agreement hasn’t worked.”

About 80% of the global bluefin catch is consumed in Japan, where it is served raw as sashimi and sushi. A piece of otoro – a fatty cut from the fish’s underbelly – can cost several thousand yen at high-end restaurants in Tokyo.

With laws as toothless as the jiji/baba's that are taking over....

80% consumption...move over shark and whale, there is a new top predator in town.

[Buraku]

Thousands of tons of dead sardines wash ashore in northern Japan

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wi ... -105493315

[Coligny]

Seafood cookbook sold out on amazon…