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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The top-selling tuna at Tokyo’s traditional New Year auction sold for more than $270,000 on Thursday, nearly double last year’s price, breaking a pandemic trend of slumping demand. Michelin-starred sushi restaurant Onodera Group and Japanese wholesaler Yamayuki forked out 36.04 million yen ($273,000) for the 212-kilo bluefin tuna in the auction at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market. The figure was still only a fraction of the 2019 record price but marks a […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The buyer of a $145,000 tuna at Tokyo’s traditional New Year auction said Wednesday he hoped the purchase would “brighten” a Covid-hit 2022. The top price paid for a tuna at the first auction of the year at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market fell for the third year running, with demand hit by the pandemic. The 16.88 million yen shelled out jointly by a restaurant operator and a wholesaler for the huge […]
by Karyn NISHIMURA-POUPEE Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The cries of the raucous pre-dawn tuna auction rang out for the first time at Tokyo’s new fish market Thursday, just days after the world-famous Tsukiji site closed the door on its 83-year history. The location may have changed but the ritual remained the same: huge frozen whole tuna laid out on the ground, bells tolling to sound the start of the auction and a […]
by Natsuko Fukue Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo’s world-famous Tsukiji fish market held its last pre-dawn New Year’s auction on Friday before closing down for relocation, with the highest bidder paying more than $320,000 for a giant tuna. After more than 80 years in operation, the world’s biggest fish market, a popular tourist attraction in an area packed with restaurants and shops, will move to Toyosu, a former gas plant a bit […]
GENERAL Santos City, Philippines (Eagle News) –Bumaba ng sampung porsyento ang bagsakan ng tuna sa General Santos City sa unang kalahati ng taon. Ito ay dahil sa pagbaba umano ng demand ng frozen raw materials mula sa local tuna canneries. Sa datos ng Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA), umabot lang sa higit isang daang libong metriko tonelada ang bagsakan ng sariwa at frozen tuna kumpara sa higit isang daan at labing-apat na libo noong 2015. […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — People with bowel cancer may improve their survival chances by eating a lot of omega 3 fatty acids found in oily fish like tuna and salmon, a study suggested Wednesday. Analysis of data from more than 170,000 people in the United States revealed that among 1,659 who developed bowel cancer, there was a strong correlation between higher omega 3 intake and lower risk of death, it said. “Compared with patients who […]
Waiting for Tuna by Gregg Yan Largest Gathering of Bicolano Tuna Fishers Aims to Conserve Tuna Late afternoon and we’re holed up in a hut along the coast of Tiwi in Albay, trading fish tales and waiting for fishermen to return. Sitting around us are their wives, mending nets and eyeing the swelling crowd of kids cajoling in the surf. It is June, the season for yellowfin tuna. The first of the bancas arrive, unloading […]
