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Sep

28

Bluefin Tuna Sells for Record $55,700 in Japan

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Bluefin Tuna Update: This Weblog entry was featured on Green Peace’s Web site.

Recently, Wil Ford (a disabled U.S. Marine veteran) and other concerned activists around the world have collectively encouraged the United Nations to consider banning the international Bluefin tuna trade to save the declining population of the cherished species in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Result: Mission accomplished!

In Tokyo, Japan, a Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner, at the world’s largest fish market, paid a record $55,700 dollars for a huge bluefin tuna, weighing 276-kilogram (607-pound). The auction bidder was one of many winners in the first auction of 2008 at the Tsukiji market, where approximately 2,904 bluefin tuna were sold.

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