meanwhile in Japan, a restaurant owner pays $1.7 million for a bluefin tuna fish...

[LKD]

yikes!! $1.7 million for a tuna fish... where the heck do these people get that money to spend on a single fish? xDD here i'm complaining even paying $50 for slices of fresh salmon fish.

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog...for+record+176+million+in+japan+sushi+anyone/

 

[Art Mann]

That should be in the dictionary under "obscene."

 

[Rockslinger]

Tunas are full of mercury. Don't eat.

 

[Onelongfinger]

I'm going tuna fishing next week. What kind of bait should I pick up? Btw does anyone have the phone number of the fool? I want to sell him my tuna.

 

[LKD]

Tunas are full of mercury. Don't eat.

how are tunas different from other fishes? Do tunas enjoy mercury?

 

[Onelongfinger]

how are tunas different from other fishes? Do tunas enjoy mercury?

They live longer thus more time to bioaccumulate. Any animal that lives in a polluted area will have more of that certain parameter in its body.

 

[lomotil]

This results in the common phenomenon of bow legs and fu.cked up teeth in Japanese females. They like this "kwai" or cute look.

Tunas are full of mercury. Don't eat.

 

[harryass]

That should be in the dictionary under "obscene."

and also should be in the dictionary under "greed" and "stupidos". I hope the scum buyers and piggy customers get major food poisoning from eating it.

 

[Smallcock]

and also should be in the dictionary under "greed" and "stupidos". I hope the scum buyers and piggy customers get major food poisoning from eating it.

The buyer is to you, what you are to a poor person living in Kolkata.

 

[pointz]

From what I understand, it's a once a year thing done for publicity. The same guy wins the auction two years in a row.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

That should be in the dictionary under "obscene."

No more obscene than paying $460,000 for a bottle of scotch or $20,000 for a bottle of wine.

 

[diehard]

how are tunas different from other fishes? Do tunas enjoy mercury?

They live longer thus more time to bioaccumulate. Any animal that lives in a polluted area will have more of that certain parameter in its body.

also, they're high in the food chain, thus eat lots of smaller fish that are contaminated, making things worse.

from what I've read, sardines are mercury free, could someone please confirm?

 

[danibbler]

At that price, unless you are filthy rich, you are not going to be eating enough tuna to be worried about mercury poisoning.

And Ceiling Cat is right, this is no more obscene than paying tens of thousands for some liquid in a bottle.

 

[LKD]

This results in the common phenomenon of bow legs and fu.cked up teeth in Japanese females. They like this "kwai" or cute look.

i think that was more to do with their water not containing flouride like in America and dental care

 

[Samurai Joey]

I wished that the article specified what type of bluefin tuna was auctioned, since bluefin tuna fish species across the world's oceans due to overfishing, with the exception of the Pacific bluefin tuna.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefin_tuna

It may well be the case that the extraordinarily high value for which that fish was auctioned off may be a reflection of the rarity of that fish. Unfortunately, the high value for that fish does not bode well for the future of the species, given that there will continue to remain high market pressures to overfish.

 

[Mervyn]

They must really like sandwhiches over there

 

[George The Curious]

They must really like sandwhiches over there

Tunas are typically consumed raw in Japan, in forms of sushi or sashimi, which of course sometimes contain roundworm larvae that will lay eggs inside your blood vessels, and spread.

 

[nottyboi]

I wonder if they ran a Geiger counter over it to make sure it wasn't a Fukushima fish..