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01-12-2020, 05:47 PM | #1 |
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Bluefin Tuna worth a million plus!
Here is a Japanese guy who spends up big on Bluefin Tuna for his restaurant chain.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/artic...cli/index.html Probably a bit of a publicity stunt, but big Tuna are going to be pursued even more now given the prospect of bags of money for those who can land them in prime condition. |
01-12-2020, 08:46 PM | #2 | |
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Re: Bluefin Tuna worth a million plus!
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01-12-2020, 09:11 PM | #3 |
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Re: Bluefin Tuna worth a million plus!
It is probably full of mercury infused organic compounds, so you would not be eating much of it at a time if you valued your long term health. Big Tuna vacuum up a lot of smaller fish to keep them going and in order to build up their meaty bodies, so are concentrators of pollution.
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01-12-2020, 10:20 PM | #4 |
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Re: Bluefin Tuna worth a million plus!
Maybe my math is off, but I keep track or % of yield on grouper, aj, hog, etc. Figure 42% of gross weight for pure fillets ( no skin, bone, red meat etc) so lets say this tuna delivers 50%, that's about 300 lbs, at $1.8 mill that comes out to about $375/oz...kinda stiff!
What do you want to bet he serves over a thousand pounds of fish off that one purchase ( in all his stores combined). It's all Hype. |
01-12-2020, 10:58 PM | #5 | |
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/05/tuna...sh-market.html Just reading that article the answer lies here. "Kimura had held the record for top price paid for a single fish at the new year’s auction for six straight years until 2017. But last year, the owner of a different fish restaurant chain paid the highest price." |
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