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This makes me feel some empathy for them; but it's not strong enough to deviate my taste buds from having a big cheesy tuna melt with pickles.

I like my tuna with extra dolphin....

But only if that dolphin blew all of his money on instant lottery tickets. Then you wouldn't be eating an intelligent one. >> ^gwiz665:

I like my tuna with extra dolphin....

I'm so glad to see this video. My old chef used to tell me about this process, but I've never seen video of it before.

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From what I have read, the Atlantic Bluefin tuna is one of the most overfished and threatened species of fish on Earth.
"Thanks to 4 decades of overfishing, it has been driven to just 3% of its 1960 or pre-longlining abundance - a decline of 97%"

Traditions (however recent they may be...) are great, but we now have the knowledge to make informed decisions about these practices. To be honest, I am surprised that Nat Geo takes such a tabloid approach to mans'-struggle-against-uch-a-formidable-opponent...

EFF THOSE FISH UP ! ! !

FEED your bellies.

http://www.bigmarinefish.com/photos_bluefin_tuna_pg4.html

Yay, good job guys. Bluefin tuna are nearly extinct. Just a few more years and you can wipe them out entirely! Good job National Geo for supporting the trade without once mentioning how these people are years away from fishing themselves out of work and a food supply.

Tuna fishing is not cool.

Yah. This is why I don't upvote NatGeo videos. That and the overdramatic presentations. At least this episode dispensed with the cable news suspense music.

What are you guys saying? That I won't be able to go into Subway and get a tuna footlong? Impossible!

So.. tuna aren't round and tin-shaped? I don't believe it.

The type of tuna you buy in a can is not the bluefin tuna - of which some species may become extinct in the wild by next year.

At least these folks fish the tuna sustainably, as evidenced by the fact that they've been doing it this way for nearly 2000 years. It's the giant commercial factory fishers that have decimated the tuna population over the last fifty years

>> ^desertdragon:

At least these folks fish the tuna sustainably, as evidenced by the fact that they've been doing it this way for nearly 2000 years. It's the giant commercial factory fishers that have decimated the tuna population over the last fifty years


No single group of fisherman can be said to fish sustainably if the rest are fishing to extinction. Sure it's traditional, but if everyone still hunts the blue fin, even if they all use this method, the practice is only sustainable if the total tuna fished in a year is less than or equal to the rate of reproduction in the species, no matter how long it takes the species to decline. In any case it's only in the past 150 years that industrial fishing has been making a dent on fish stocks, but most noticeably in the past 50 or so. So yeah, for 1800 years prior to that it didn't matter how you fished, it was sustainable because there weren't enough of us eating fish.

Apparently certain Japanese love blue fin so much that they are freezing it to build up stocks so that once it goes extinct they can sell it at extreme profit. Hurrah for capitalism!

FYI this is also where ground beef comes from.

Yeah, I kinda find it hard to upvote that. It was a video with NO mention of the animal's welfare, how they're treated or anything.

I know that the meat and fish I eat was an alive animal once, but we do our best to buy freerange and the like in the hope that any animal we do eat was given a nice life and was killed humanely.

This video seems to give zero care whatsoever as to the fish in question.

So Boo to them

>> ^shagen454:

This makes me feel some empathy for them; but it's not strong enough to deviate my taste buds from having a big cheesy tuna melt with pickles.


Aw, poor fishy -- GET IN MY BELLY!