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Environment & Energy

MattSh

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2. And then there's this...

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 01:42 PM

Jan 2013

Japan's sprawling Mitsubishi conglomerate has cornered a 40 per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna, one of the world's most endangered fish.

A corporation within the £170bn Mitsubishi empire is importing thousands of tonnes of the fish from Europe into Tokyo's premium fish markets, despite stocks plummeting towards extinction in the Mediterranean.

Bluefin tuna frozen at -60C now could be sold in several years' time for astronomical sums if Atlantic bluefin becomes commercially extinct as forecast, a result of the near free-for-all enjoyed by the tuna fleet.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/revealed-the-bid-to-corner-worlds-bluefin-tuna-market-1695479.html

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Overfishing causes Pacific bluefin tuna numbers to drop 96% [View all] xchrom Jan 2013 OP

A drop of 96%? Yeah, this should do it ... Nihil Jan 2013 #1

And then there's this... MattSh Jan 2013 #2

That is just obscene ... Nihil Jan 2013 #4

This. Has. To. Stop. postulater Jan 2013 #3