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    A Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner has paid a record 55,700 US dollars for a massive bluefin tuna in the first auction of the year (2008!) at the world's largest fish market in Tokyo, an official and media reports said.

    The 276-kilogram (607-pound) bluefin tuna -- caught off Japan's northern region of Aomori -- sold for 6.07 million yen (55,706 dollars) or 22,000 yen (about 202 dollars) per kilo, an official at the Tsukiji fish market said.

    The final price was a record for Japan and nearly two million yen more than the previous year, he added.



    Taking tuna out of the can


    Tuna is one of the world’s favourite fish. It provides a critical part of the diet for millions of poor people, as well as being at the core of the world’s luxury sashimi markets. But global tuna stocks are under threat. Many tuna species are now listed as either endangered or critically endangered. In fact, global tuna stocks are disappearing.

    There is no end in sight to the global demand for tuna or to the pressure being brought to bear on developing coastal States to provide foreign fleets with access to their fisheries resources. While tuna access agreements are necessary and in some cases the only viable current option for some coastal States, it is unacceptable that these agreements lead to resource depletion, unfavourable terms and impoverishment for developing coastal States and a worsening situation for the poor in these countries.

    This report offers strategies for how coastal States faced with unsustainable agreements might turn their situation around. It shows how coastal States could increase their revenues from access agreements by reducing and controlling access to their tuna. It provides recommendations and principles for what could become fair tuna fisheries agreements. These proposals are an attempt to translate the rhetoric of sustainable development into concrete steps that will maximise the chances of reversing the global decline of tuna stocks, place the tuna fishery on a longterm sustainable footing, and deliver a more equitable outcome to coastal nations through the provision of local economic opportunities within their communities.


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    What about starting tuna fish farms in Namibia.

    Make money and feed the poor and the needy in Africa, stop exporting to other parts like Europe, they have endless stock. Feed and care for your own people first, they call it charity. The European farmers are paid by the EU Government, to produce at a lost, to exploit you.

    Africa should feed the Africans first, no matter at what expense. What is over, should go for export. Do not feed the best to others, you kill your self in the process. Stop feeding animals tablets, give them natural bio-grazing, its more healthy and profitable in the long run. Its about quality, not quantity.

    Good idea for 2008, start at home.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pangkas View Post
    What about starting tuna fish farms in Namibia.

    Make money and feed the poor and the needy in Africa, stop exporting to other parts like Europe, they have endless stock. Feed and care for your own people first, they call it charity. The European farmers are paid by the EU Government, to produce at a lost, to exploit you.

    Africa should feed the Africans first, no matter at what expense. What is over, should go for export. Do not feed the best to others, you kill your self in the process. Stop feeding animals tablets, give them natural bio-grazing, its more healthy and profitable in the long run. Its about quality, not quantity.

    Good idea for 2008, start at home.
    yeah ... fantastic idea, the sooner the beter they should start with a tuna fish farm and also
    some yoghurt trees in the Namib, ideal conditions, not to mention on the guano platforms growing mangos ... it's after all Namibia.

    Call Sam Nujoma and advice the idiot on my behalf, because I have not a telly number of the idiot, other wise I would have do it myself.

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