Monday, March 22, 2010

The Bitter Battle Over Bluefin Tuna

Glossy and greedy: Bluefin tuna is one of the world's most highly prized foodstuffs.

From The BBC:

"Welcome to the strange world of globalisation."

That is Roberto Mielgo's response to the fact that it is commercially viable to catch and keep live tuna in off-shore pens - or ranches - in the Spanish Mediterranean and feed them vast amounts of expensive caught fish (around 10kg of feed fish serve to make the tuna put on 1kg of body weight).

And to cull them by hand using divers, ship them to shore, package them in a purpose-built factory and fly them whole - on the same day - to market on the other side of the world.

Roberto Mielgo calls himself an independent fisheries consultant.

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