So yeah. That's a thing now. BRB, weeping profusely and lamenting the downfall of everything worthwhile in the universe. The AP got their hands on a draft summary of a report from International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean, and it ... well, it's very, very bad. Specifically, the current population of Pacific Bluefin Tuna is at 2.6% of its unfished levels. That's not a typo and you're not reading it wrong; over 97% of all Pacific Bluefin Tuna have been fished right the fuck out of existence. Populations of Atlantic and Southern Bluefin have also fallen, but it's the Pacific population that's been absolutely wrecked.
The scifi book I read based on that premise was not complimentary. Seemed to believe uncontrolled eating would lead to destruction of the Earth. The author had higher hopes for the evolved rats than the cockroaches.
Lionfish supposedly taste like lobster. Of course, they started out as aquarium fish and have become a major invasive species that are preying on native sea life and eating them to extinction.
There's now a bounty per fish to encourage hunting. Some chefs are trying to make them popular so to encourage even more people to go out spearfishing and sell their catch to restaurants.
In the meantime they'll be frantically netting as many as they can until they're completely gone, advertising the fish as incredibly rare, last-chance-to-eat delicacies and selling the meat at astronomical prices.
I could easily see a small platter of sushi selling for thousands. The dwindling catch will auction at obscene prices, and will be purchased by the insanely wealthy as a status thing.
In 2013 the first bluefin of the season sold for $1.76 million, so you can just imagine what the very. last. one. will go for.
I have a cousin who goes on lion fish hunting expeditions with her husband all up and down the Florida coast. They say the frilly lil' devils are quite. delicious.
Foie gras sells for ~$70 per lb. The last price estimate I remember for lab-grown meat was $18 per oz. (sorry, I don't have a link) It really is just around the corner for the specialty products.
I believe the problem is that tuna don't lay eggs in captivity, which can be a problem with breeding. The solution a lot of farmers seem to take is to take young, wild tuna, and then pen them up until they're big enough to sell for big bucks. Now if you're sitting there and thinking that would just make things worse, because it removes them from the ecosystem before they mature enough to breed and produce more tuna, then you deserve a cookie.
Jellfish soup is not bad.
No, they don't understand. They tell themselves "it's not really happening!!!"
Probably they cut down the last grove to PO a rival tribe.
It's been tried. Tuna don't take to it the way salmon do.
But that's not the point. The point is that an entire species is going extinct just because we like to eat it.
Fuck us.
The scifi book I read based on that premise was not complimentary. Seemed to believe uncontrolled eating would lead to destruction of the Earth. The author had higher hopes for the evolved rats than the cockroaches.
Lionfish supposedly taste like lobster. Of course, they started out as aquarium fish and have become a major invasive species that are preying on native sea life and eating them to extinction.
There's now a bounty per fish to encourage hunting. Some chefs are trying to make them popular so to encourage even more people to go out spearfishing and sell their catch to restaurants.
They're trying.
In the meantime they'll be frantically netting as many as they can until they're completely gone, advertising the fish as incredibly rare, last-chance-to-eat delicacies and selling the meat at astronomical prices.
I could easily see a small platter of sushi selling for thousands. The dwindling catch will auction at obscene prices, and will be purchased by the insanely wealthy as a status thing.
In 2013 the first bluefin of the season sold for $1.76 million, so you can just imagine what the very. last. one. will go for.
I have a cousin who goes on lion fish hunting expeditions with her husband all up and down the Florida coast. They say the frilly lil' devils are quite. delicious.
Foie gras sells for ~$70 per lb. The last price estimate I remember for lab-grown meat was $18 per oz. (sorry, I don't have a link) It really is just around the corner for the specialty products.
I believe the problem is that tuna don't lay eggs in captivity, which can be a problem with breeding. The solution a lot of farmers seem to take is to take young, wild tuna, and then pen them up until they're big enough to sell for big bucks. Now if you're sitting there and thinking that would just make things worse, because it removes them from the ecosystem before they mature enough to breed and produce more tuna, then you deserve a cookie.
You never been there have ya? We gots us more than ponies! Srsly, my mistake but I'm gonna go with it.
Don't blame me.I don't like fish.
They still taste good.
AFTER you cook the meat out!
eh, they just tell the grandkids to go fish up some bootstraps