California cancels salmon fishing season

Re:California cancels salmon fishing season by myshpa on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:02PM (#35145173)

"For example, Mitsubishi, a company which handles 35-40% of Japan’s imported Atlantic bluefin tuna, has been deep-freezing and stockpiling thousands of tons of bluefin each year, seeking to profit by selling bluefin at extremely steep prices in the future when the bluefin tuna is extinct or near extinction."

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/revealed-t...

https://web.colby.edu/st297-global18/2019/01/21/atlantic-blu...

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Re:California cancels salmon fishing season by nielsbot on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:27PM (#35145442)

Won't this encourage fishermen to continue fishing bluefin at higher prices?

What a dark future: "Bluefun tuna is extinct in the wild but you can still eat it from Mitsubishi"

And then: "Today the last bluefin tuna in the history of the world was sold for $20M to a billionaire."

Something like that...

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Re:California cancels salmon fishing season by myshpa on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:36PM (#35145535)

We've already seen it in Futurama with the the anchovies (A fishful of dollars).

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Re:California cancels salmon fishing season by jamiek88 on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:38PM (#35145554)

The Tuna wars, begun have they.

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Re:California cancels salmon fishing season by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday March 13, 2023 @09:40PM (#35146179)

$20 million is a steal!

One sold for $3.1 million back in 2019.

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Re:California cancels salmon fishing season by nielsbot on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:06AM (#35147320)

amazing and awful

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Re:California cancels salmon fishing season by throwaway2037 on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:58PM (#35145784)

In Japan, you can buy farm-raised bluefin tuna. It is nicknamed "Kindai tuna". Read more here: https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/201...

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