Junk food that could only be used to feed cats and dogs, but now it has been robbed of tens of millions of pieces, why is bluefin tuna sold so expensive? What happened to him?
At Japan's first tuna auction in 2021, a bluefin tuna weighing 208 kilograms was forcibly auctioned for more than 20 million yen, and I gave 99 points for this wave of operations, and the remaining one point was afraid of his pride, but do you think this is the end?
In 2013, a bluefin tuna weighing about 278 kilograms was auctioned by a local tycoon for 155.4 million yen, and a kilogram of tuna was about 8,000 US dollars, such a price is not unexpected, the average person can not eat it in a lifetime.
But who would have thought that just over 100 years ago, bluefin tuna was just a discarded junk food, fishermen if unfortunate to catch waste fish, even very depressed, because this tuna once out of the water will quickly die and rot, the flesh will become thin and sour, can only be sold to the local cat food company, so the bluefin tuna at that time a pound only needs a few cents at most,
But after the beginning of the First World War, people found that the canned fat content of tuna was so high that they exploded, so they began to study the way to eat tuna, and tuna has since entered its own fish life peak, and with the continuous upgrading of people's tastes in the late 80s, coupled with the emergence of ultra-low temperature freezing technology at that time, the status of tuna in the fishing industry is getting higher and higher.
Every year, thousands of fishing fleets go out to sea in the Pacific Ocean to hunt tuna, and the price of tuna is naturally all the way to the top, just from 2011 to 2019 in a few years, the value of bluefin tuna soared more than 10 times, leaping to become a real sky-high fish meat, so how is this fish caught?
Now what comes into sight is the bluefin tuna fishing process, which is known as a book of fishing strange fishing method, specially designed for bluefin tuna, the reason to use this fishing method, is because the bluefin tuna has been surfing in the sea all their lives, if you use the net to hunt tuna, then the tuna because of fear and struggle, the flesh will become yellowish and sour, so even if it is an artificially farmed tuna, the fishing process is also caught by divers with their bare hands, so where is the bluefin tuna wild?
First of all, the bluefin tuna is extremely fast, can instantly accelerate to a speed of 150 kilometers per hour, less than 40 days can cross the Atlantic Ocean, so the bluefin tuna is also called the Rolls Royce in the sea, but also because the bluefin tuna is a sports macho,
This makes the myoglobin content in his flesh extremely high, especially the fat content of bluefin tuna is even as high as 15%, which can completely kill other tuna, because in the world of tuna fat is king,
Therefore, bluefin tuna is also known as the blue diamond in the fish, the status has long exceeded the circle of ordinary fish, half a foot soared into the world of luxury, people who can eat bluefin tuna are often rich and oily,
Of course, it is precisely because the bluefin tuna myoglobin content is extremely high, so it must be frozen and transported, otherwise the meat will be smoked in two days, and as the most fanatical area for tuna in the world,
Japan eats 45,000 tons of bluefin tuna every year, which is 80% of the world's consumption, so bluefin tuna has gradually become a strange commodity in recent years.
Bluefin tuna, who was once the king of fishing that turned the river upside down, has now become a fish criminal who has fled into the wilderness, and behind it are countless large hunting boats composed of pursuing soldiers, as well as terrible fishing techniques, a book of fishing!
Thousands of ships through this method, constantly extract the bluefin tuna in the sea, it is rumored that it does not take 0.01 seconds at all, there will be a bluefin tuna falling into the net, in fact, the bluefin tuna was once the overlord fish in the sea, there are almost no natural enemies in the sea,
But since the beginning of the last century, Japan's economy has taken off and red meat is extremely respected, bluefin tuna has once become a delicacy on the table, and his value has doubled year by year, huge benefits have made humans more crazy to kill bluefin tuna, and tuna has also changed from the former cat food to a symbol of wealth status and status, because bluefin tuna has a very high protein content and excellent taste, is the top ingredient for making sashimi and sushi
Therefore, it is also known as the blue diamond in the fish, in recent years held in the tuna auction, the value of the tuna continues to subvert our cognition, a 300 pounds of wild tuna can easily sell millions to tens of millions, and even folklore that the beggars in the bridge hole are because of eating tuna,
The result is that in less than 30 years, the number of tuna has shrunk by 97%, many wild tuna have been killed even as juveniles, and many parts of the world have banned the killing of tuna, even authorized fishing boats.
Fishing is limited to one fish a year, but even so, bluefin tuna and deep-sea blue whales are still hunted by countless fishing boats, and if this killing continues, their fate will become unpredictable