THE TUNA BLUES

In 2005 I was taken to the Katsu-ura Fish Market in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, by the owner of a luxury hotel who bought Blue Fin Tuna for his customers everyday. It was a sobering experience, especially when you realise that even today, five years on, Japan still consumes 80% of the worlds Blue Fin Tuna at a time when stocks are dangerously low. In January 2012 a 269 kg Blue Fin Tuna was sold for 479,000 UK Pounds! When my wife Konomi was growing up Sushi was only a twice a year experience, it was so expensive, but now you can eat sushi from a conveyor belt and on that conveyor belt of cheap cheap sushi I have even seen whale meat. Incidentally, Wakayama is the place where the Dolphins are rounded up and slaughtered in what is other wise a very beautiful little bay.

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