Most Expensive Tuna Fish
Written by: jeremy Filed Under: Food, Luxury, World on January 14th, 2009The bluefin tuna is a species in decline. While the Pacific variety isn’t as endangered as the West Atlantic bluefin, it’s quite telling that half of the 600 devices that researchers from Tag-A-Giant attached to Pacific bluefins were returned to the New York-based operation by fishermen seeking the devices’ $500 reward. Combine the pressure from fishing with the weather experienced in the region this year and you have a species that may not be around to see 2010.
It certainly doesn’t help that it’s such a tasty fish.
A 282-pound catch off the northern coast of Oma was recently sold in a Tokyo auction. The winners, a pair of rival restaurateurs, set aside their differences to acquire the mammoth fish. All told, the two paid over $100,000 for the fish, making it the world’s most expensive tuna fish.
The 282-pound tuna wasn’t the only bluefin up for auction. The two others sold this year, however, don’t quite compare to the forty-one that were sold at the same auction last year.
Maybe offering a reward for the prize in the fish’s belly wasn’t such a good idea after all.
A bluefin tuna fish.
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the fish is yummy but why not help others people who need help like those hungry people on the street.
There is nothing like eating Blue Fin Tuna.. I wish they would still be around for my children to enjoy. How can we stop the world from fishing them for just a few years? Good luck, kinda hard not to catch for over a hundred dollars a pound on average.
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