At $91 per pound, are bluefin tunas’ days numbered?
Samurai Tuna. If only John Belushi had made it to the Tokyo fish market… The record fish was a Pacific bluefin tuna caught in a well known spot for high quality tuna. No kidding. The Japanese have the world’s most refined sense of tuna flesh, and will pay vastly different prices for the same species caught in different waters. These fish average a much higher selling price per pound than their Atlantic counterpart. Prices of tuna caught overseas were, on average, 20 to 30 percent higher than the previous year as imports of cultured tuna from Mediterranean countries including Croatia and Spain have dropped sharply. Tighter International Control of Tuna The record prices come amid a decline in tuna supply due to tighter international controls on the catch for bluefin tuna. Japan, which eats a quarter of the world’s tuna, is moving towards limiting bluefin tuna fishing in its own waters in a bid to help protect the species from extinction. Tuna are frozen before they are hauled out on a c
