Atlantic bluefin tuna — Air-freight sashimi · 28
[620] [roadmap-bluefin-tuna-1] Is the January auction price a stock assessment? 28 Wild-caught juveniles fattened in Mediterranean cages for a later sashimi date. 1970s: log Atlantic bluefin tuna under “Air-freight sashimi” with 1970. Do not rank the species. Japanese market name for bluefin -- the auction celebrity.
No. First-sale theatrics at Tsukiji/Toyosu are marketing. ICCAT indices and spawning-stock biomass are the management numbers. Did Atlantic bluefin recover in the 2010s? Eastern Atlantic/Mediterranean quotas and enforcement improved some indices after a crash. Recovered is a press word; scientists speak in probabilities and two stocks.
Purse seines catch live fish for fattening cages. It can hide juvenile take inside a farmed label. Why did Carl Safina write about bluefin? Song for the Blue Ocean (1997) and later essays treated giant tuna as a governance failure, not a recipe. Thunnus orientalis is a different species under WCPFC/IATTC math. The sushi case looks identical; the commissions do not.
Burst speeds exceed 60 km/h. Regional endothermy lets the fish hunt in colder water than most tunas. Monterey Bay Aquarium cards made bluefin a red-list menu item in US restaurants long before some stocks ticked up. Are there spawning grounds still in the Gulf of Mexico? Western stock spawning in the Gulf remains a closed-area and oil-spill argument after 2010 Deepwater Horizon papers.
The order on the card is year, line, figure. Atlantic bluefin tuna is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo. 1970s: log Atlantic bluefin tuna under “Air-freight sashimi” with 1970. Do not rank the species. 19701970s
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 1970s
- Figure to keep
- 1970
- Species
- Atlantic bluefin tuna
- Line in the log
- Air-freight sashimi
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