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くそっ、私の黒鮪刺身はどこにありますか?!
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DAMN, where’s my bluefin tuna sashimi?!
くそっ、私の黒鮪刺身はどこにありますか?!
(Kusou, watashi no kuro maguro sashimi wa doko ni arimasu ka?!)
From the Mediterranean to Japan, the bluefin tuna is being fished and eaten into extinction.
There are a few species of bluefin tuna, and all of them are in danger disappearing forever.
Bluefin tuna sashimi is a delicacy the world over, wherever fanciers of Japanese live. This is a phenomenon ignited in the 1970s, and it may soon burn out, not because of waning demand but because demand is fueling the bluefin’s road to oblivion.
Before it got reduced to a raw morsel of gourmet ecstasy, the bluefin is a living fish, one of the largest fish apart from sharks (sharks are soft-boned or cartilaginous, while most other fishes including the tuna are bony fish). The tuna’s fishy biology is rare, for it’s a warm-blooded fast swimming fish, the Lamborghini of the seas. Like those gas-guzzling monsters, bluefins are fantastical swimmers capable of hitting 70kmh, traversing the oceans from north to south, east to west, several times a year. They are highly evolved fish, advanced in design, with amazing navigation systems, able to locate prey with their sonar, but closing in with their large eyes. They can even dive down to almost 1000m deep. And like the supercars, these superfish have voracious appetites, requiring 25 kilos of prey to gain 1 kilo of weight. Their average lifespan is 15 – 30 years, and it takes them up to 12 years to go from puny microscopic larvae carried along by currents to sexually mature, sleek giants averaging 2m in length.
It seems like apart from growing up quickly, there’s nothing this beautiful fish can’t do, but it cannot escape extinction if people insist on eating them off the face of the earth.
Stop the gluttony: save the bluefin tuna from extinction!
大食家の貪欲を止めてください:黒鮪を絶滅から救ってください!
(taishyokuka no donyoku wo yamete kudasai: kuro maguro wo zemmei kara sukutte kudasai!)
Tuna looks like this to most people – the beginning of sushi, the ignomy of a frozen piece of multilated meat. But it is the end of life, or a parodic prophesy of the bluefin’s future, driven by human greed and gluttony
As Prince Albert, Monaco’s ruler, wrote in the Wall Street Journal:
Is it too pessimistic a view? It doesn’t seem to be, given this typical of the editorials on the state of things:
How did it come to this?
Yes, sport fishing is a culprit along with sushi gobblers, but the bulk of culpability lies with the sushi and sashimi lovers.
Supplying tonnes of tuna means mass fishing techniques, which are indiscriminatory about what gets snared. Non-target species like birds, turtles, sharks, whales, dolphins, seals, and other fish species become by-catch, sacrificed needlessly.
悔悟のために遅すぎである前に、確かな行動をとってください
(Kaigo no tame ni susugi de aru maini, tashika na koudou wo totte kudasai>
Can you imagine a day where the bluefin tuna has come to the end of the line? A day where there’s no fish? Bluefins are to fishes what whales are to cetaceans.
But for the diehard fan of maguro, especially otoro, the question burning the tastebuds and churning the gastric juices in the guts must be : Is this the end of sushi?
Old habits die hard, but what about older habits that were buried by the old habits?
How do you kick an old habit, one that is harmful? By looking further back to when things were better, more sustainable.
Some may point to farming as a way out. But no, it is really another farcical false hope.
It may not be too late to do the right thing and keep the legacy meant for our future generations intact, a LIVING planet filled with the amazing bluefin and its fellow dwellers of the deep.
(Incidentally, the intensification of the annual Canadian seal slaughter used the cod fisheries’ collapse as its excuse. Ref “Scientific Study – my fish!“)
Efforts to study and understand the bluefin tuna are underway. In fact, 1 scientist has said:
But we must bear in mind that even if the bluefin is saved, it still does mean we can feed the bluefin to our feckless appetites again anytime soon:
It’s not just Japan (but even Japanese think tank are urging Japanese to spare the bluefin). Bluefin tuna are missing from Danish waters since the 1960s, the annual mattanza in Sicily. In fact, it’s not just tuna that’s got problems.
No nation can claim innocence. No one. Even in tiny lawful Singapore, illegal food encounters are not unheard of.
Though there seems to be hope, this constant yo-yoing between austerity and glut cannot be good. Can we actually learn? The insidious food, inc has its claws in every aspect of the human food chain, whether on land or in the seas, and consumers are not guiltless in the concocting of this recipe for disaster. The important thing is for consumers, you and me, to realise what we’re doing (or not) with our habits, and do the right thing.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Mercury Poisoning: People who eat a lot of fish may run health risk. (Latest “HOT” victim – Jeremy Piven)
Problems for Sharks and Dolphins:
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[NOTE: Any comments in Japanese will not have any response from me. The Japanese title and section headings are to pique interest only. While I have studied Japanese, it was a long time ago – but with thanks to the internet, it was a easy task to get translations.]
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