[Original] South China Sea Old Forest
In addition to salmon, the high-end delicacies that can be used as sashimi in the ocean are tuna. Salmon is a cold-water fish that is rarely produced in China. Tuna is a special fish in the South China Sea, because the production is very small, the price is expensive, and it is relatively rare. According to the China Fishery Statistics Yearbook, Hainan caught 20,400 tons of tuna in 2015, accounting for only 1.45% of the province's marine catch in the same year, but Hainan is the province with the largest tuna catch in China. In September 2017, a veteran angler from Zhejiang Province caught a tuna weighing 180 kg and 1.7 meters long in the famous Zhongsha Islands in the South China Sea, the largest recorded catch in the year. From the upper fishing to the boat, the angler and the tuna fight dozens of rounds, fighting wits, competing strength, skill, and will, and several people spend a long time to drag it to the boat. This is the most exciting and unforgettable scene of sport fishing tuna.
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Tuna is the "scud" in the ocean, traveling thousands of miles a day and swimming eight hundred at night, it is a large fish in the middle and upper layer of the ocean, with a beautiful streamlined fish body. It is found mainly in tropical oceans. The South China Sea is the largest tuna producing area in China. Tuna is a hot-blooded fish that must be swimming at all times and swim very fast. It can travel around the ocean and has no fixed habitat, so some people call it a fish without borders.
Fresh tuna sashimi is called the best in seafood, Japanese high-end restaurants are tuna fillets as a signature dish, a few pieces of bluefin tuna can sell for 200 to 300 yen, the quality and price of fillets from high to low are bluefin tuna, masu tuna, big eyes tuna and yellowfin tuna. The first two have the lowest yields and the highest prices. A 222-kilogram bluefin tuna was once sold for 155 million yen (about $1.76 million) at the Wholesale Market in Japan, and the tuna is known as the "diamond of the fish." The flesh of the tuna is purple and red, and the meat is tender and delicious. It is served with fruits and vegetables, which are very eye-catching and pleasing to the eye, and are very attractive and valuable ingredients. Tuna fish are large and slender, with few bone spurs, except for the head and middle vertebrae bone spurs are almost all meat. Chinese fish tend to be steamed or braised with whole fish with their heads and tails. Westerners do not like to eat head and tail, so they must abandon the head and tail to remove the internal organs and remove the fish bones. In this way, tuna becomes their ideal seafood ingredient.
Tuna has a high nutritional value compared with general fish meat, has low fat, low calorie and high protein characteristics. And its content of dhaepa and other unsaturated fatty acids is much higher. It has obvious efficacy and important role in women's beauty weight loss, lowering cholesterol, activating brain cells, preventing Alzheimer's disease, softening arterial blood vessels, and preventing stroke.
The largest tuna fish farm is in the Micronesian waters of the North Pacific Ocean, which accounts for 79% of the world's production. Japan and Europe are the world's largest consumers of tuna. Japan's consumption is as high as 800,000-900,000 tons, accounting for about one-third of the world's production. With the overall improvement of China's living standards into a well-off, some wealthy classes have also begun to taste the marine treasures of tuna. The most expensive bluefin tuna is also airlifted daily by Japan to the Chinese consumer market. Some old foodies are also deeply impressed by the delicious taste and are proud to enjoy this human delicacy. But in recent years, the World Environmental Organization has also warned tuna veteran diners that tuna is at the top of the marine food chain and a greedy "predator" in the world of marine life. Due to the increasing pollution of the marine world, tuna weight metal, micro-particle plastic and other harmful ingredients are gathered and enriched through the food chain, and their ingredients are higher than other fish, do not eat more, do not eat, more food is equal to chronic suicide! Gluttony equals hastening suicide!
Now some senior anglers in Sanya rent professional fishing boats to go to sea, in the drilling boat sea, under the bait to throw the rod, not much time, the fish hooked, have lifted the rod, shouted cool to home. However, for fish cargo caught under the size, it should also be thrown back into the sea, let it continue to grow, and abide by the ecological ethical rules of the angler. The problem is that some developed countries now round up tuna with large nets and use high-tech detection technology to detect fish stocks, cooperate with aircraft, satellite communications, and linkage coordination, just like a close cooperation between sea and sky, like war. No matter how many schools of tuna in this way of fishing, they can't stand up to human round-ups! Therefore, the living situation of tuna has aroused widespread concern. Bluefin tuna is already recognized as an endangered species worldwide. On the IUCN Red List of Species, it is classified as "critically endangered", second only to "extinction in the wild". In this list, China's giant pandas were downgraded from "endangered" to "transscient" last year. It shows that bluefin tuna is more endangered than giant pandas! Although tuna is the most expensive fish species, it is also the most risky food safety ingredient, and it is also a critically endangered species in the world! Scientists are exploring the possibility of raising tuna using large, intelligent marine rearing equipment or natural lagoons. Humans should take over and stop the large-scale commercial round-up of tuna. Let this beautiful species continue to thrive naturally in the world's oceans!