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It's just a publicity/marketing stunt -- bragging rights -- for buying the first tuna sold in the first auction of each new year. Otherwise it's the exact same bluefin tuna like any other, and completely not worth $2,000-$6,000/lb.
24 cze 2008 · You could bring in a 900-pound tuna and sell it to the Japanese for $50,000... That is three times what you would earn in a year as a scallop [fisher] so you are going to drop a line whenever...
25 mar 2024 · Since Japanese wild tuna stocks have been exhausted for several decades, chefs rely on farmed tuna, largely imported from Europe. Nearly all of the Mediterranean-caught bluefin tuna now go to fattening farms located mostly in Italy, Malta, Croatia, Spain and Turkey.
6 sty 2019 · Self-proclaimed Japanese “Tuna King” and sushi restaurant owner Kiyoshi Kimura paid a record $3.1 million (333.6 million yen) for a giant blue fin tuna at Tokyo’s first new year’s auction ...
9 sie 2017 · Distinct from the bream and bass pens, the bluefin tuna are not reared but captured fish, and are held often for several years. To the fishermen and the pen-owners this is a sustainable practice – far more so than taking everything to market as soon as it is caught.
6 sty 2014 · The owner, Kiyoshi Kimura, reports that the tuna will be sold at a huge loss–about $4.60 per serving.
23 lis 2021 · «In Carloforte we do two kinds of sales: either we separate the live tuna and send them to Malta to be farmed and fattened up or we make our own canned tuna and bottarga and sell them locally to restaurants on the island.
