Sunday, September 20, 2009

Oma, Japan's Bluefin tuna


In Japan's Oma is such a place for people to go for tuna. And here... we're not talking about a 30 pounder... we're talking over 200.

A fisherman finally caught a tuna but it was much more than that. They called it the winning of the lottery. It has dark flesh. It brought a couple dozens of tourists to taste this fantastic winning. The price for this was up at $10,000. A 220 pounder all cut up in size of brick blocks for sale.

Problem occurred:

A couple of decades ago, each boat that goes out would get about a dozen of tuna but... today, if they're lucky, they would get half a dozen combine.

The mayor of that town said that it was terrible because since there are more tourists, there is festival which leads to more demand of tuna. He's a bit upset that the government hasnt done anything to make this stop because its messing up the population of the tuna and that the fish arent reproducing fast enough.

Also, another problem could be that there are people from other region of Japan or even from neighboring countries like China or Taiwan.

I believe there needs to be rules and regulations for this or there wouldnt be any fish for people to eat in Oma.

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