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But tuna's popularity in Japan, where about 600,000 tonnes is eaten annually – mainly raw as sushi or sashimi – shows no signs of abating.
Huge bluefin tuna fetches record price in Tokyo, but whale is left on the shelf 2011
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Chittum continued, saying "Japanese companies, worried about the bluefin tuna's possible extinction, have supplies of frozen, whole tunas to sell later at exorbitant prices."
Susan Buchanan: The Gulf's Ocean and Inland Fish Face Multiple Threats Susan Buchanan 2011
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Chittum continued, saying "Japanese companies, worried about the bluefin tuna's possible extinction, have supplies of frozen, whole tunas to sell later at exorbitant prices."
Susan Buchanan: The Gulf's Ocean and Inland Fish Face Multiple Threats Susan Buchanan 2011
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There's an energy harvesting device called Biostream, based on the back end of a tuna's tail by a company called Biopower.
Green guru: Janine Benyus, biologist and business leader 2010
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But he noted that it is still important to make distinctions between fish stocks: his group backs a ban on taking bluefin tuna from the Mediterranean but does not support some groups 'call for a moratorium on fishing in the bluefin tuna's Gulf of Mexico spawning grounds.
World is running out of places to catch wild fish, study finds Juliet Eilperin 2010
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The tuna's other half went to Itamae Sushi, a Tokyo outpost of a casual, Hong-Kong restaurant chain that has been expanding recently.
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However, this breakthrough in aquaculture is a process that implements tuna's lifecycle of hatching, growth, spawning and hatching completely in a farming facility.
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As a highly migratory large species that swims powerfully, bluefin tuna's complete cultivation is difficult, scientifically and operationally.
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What the Japanese buying agent determines by his quick and practiced analysis of that sliver of tail is an indication of the tuna's inner color, its oil content, and the presence, if any, of parasitic disease.
If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007
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A tuna's quality can't truly be judged until it is laid open with the long knife — that is, until after it has been bought.
If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007
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