Thursday, January 5, 2012

Bluefin tuna

  • This tuna is worth savoring: It cost nearly three-quarters of a million dollars. A bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan fetched a record 56.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • If the price of premium tuna is any indication of the countrys economic state, then Japans finances are in good order for 2012. At Tokyos Tsukiji Fish a bluefin tuna caught off the northern coast of Japan fetched a record 56.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • TOKYO - This tuna is worth savoring: It cost nearly three-quarters of a million dollars. A bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan fetched a record 56.
  • (CBS News)
  • A Virginia Beach-based charter boat landed a 265-pound, 77-inch bluefin tuna Thursday on the opening day of the ninth annual Mid-Atlantic Rockfish Shootout. J.T. Holt, a Virginia Beach resident, reeled in the fish on Wave Runner III, captained by Pat Foster.
  • (a 265-pound tuna - HamptonRoads.com)
  • The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service challenging a new rule that it says will only increase overfishing for the species that conservationists say is already on the brink of destruction.
  • (The Daily Green)
  • This tuna caught in Japan is worth savouring: It cost about three-quarters of a million dollars. A bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan fetched a record 56.
  • (CBC)
  • A bluefin tuna, caught off northern Japan, has fetched a record 56.49 million yen in the first auction of the year at Tokyos Tsukiji fish market. The price for the 269-kilogram tuna beat last years record of 32.49 million yen.
  • (Times of Malta)
  • * Economy: The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 372,000. Thats 11 percent lower than the same time last year, according to the Labor Department.
  • (nola.com)
  • TOKYO, Jan. 5-- A bluefin tuna was auctioned off at a record price of 56.49 million yen(about 740,000 U.S. dollars) at the Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market in Tokyo on Thursday.
  • (English Eastday)

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