bluefin

Basically it describes Japan's progress in farming bluefin tuna which is a particularly difficult species to farm.

Bluefin tuna populations have declined severely from overfishing and illegal fishing over the past few decades –not just Atlantic bluefin tuna, but also Pacific bluefin tuna and Southern bluefin tuna.

The Bluefin Tuna is screwed because each country's long-term incentive is to sustain its population and severely curtail fishing.

Rating: Avoid - All populations of bluefin tuna are being caught faster than they can reproduce.

Albacore is less overfished than bluefin, the latter of which is more highly prized in Japan.

If you want a shit ton of bluefin tuna, go to north carolina in the winter.

I mean come one, Pacific Bluefin tuna has declined by 96%!!!

They bought Bluefin (biggest acquisition pre-IPO) which did a ton of really great sentiment analysis.

As bluefin tuna populations shrink around the world, pressure on bigeye fisheries is increasing.

At current catch rates (four times the official quota due to illegal, often Mafia-backed, fishing) Atlantic bluefin will be extinct in less than three years.

The studies on bluefin tuna for example showed higher levels of radiation, but not dramatically higher levels and still at levels considered safe for consumption.

The tuna people talk about that is running out and that is used for things like high end sushi is Bluefin tuna which is very expensive.

Bluefin is being further depleted by ranching operations that collect small bluefin and raise them to full size to sell primarily to the sushi market" Best alternatives are: Albacore (U.

A couple of excerpts: "* Tissue samples taken from 15 bluefin caught in August, five months after the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, all 15 contained reactor byproducts cesium-134 and cesium-137.

"About two-thirds of the world's tuna comes from the Pacific, but bluefin tuna accounts for only about 1% of this." Yes I know, but the above is the more important point, sorry I should have quoted it.

They ended up shelving Bluefin's product (which was targets at brands and TV networks), because they'd already signed a deal with Nielsen.

Bluefin tuna in particular is an example.