By Oluwaseun Owosekun
On Monday January 5, 2009, a Hong Kong sushi bar owner and a Japanese counterpart paid over $100,000 to share a Japanese bluefin tuna at a Tokyo fish auction. This is the highest anyone has paid for bluefin tuna in ten years. Considering this a sale of a known endangered big marine fish, I would expect a huge outcry from many environmentalists and conservationists. People like these sushi bar owners are the ones driving the overfishing and extinction of the bluefin tuna. You at the sushi bar could be eating the last bluefin tuna in the ocean.
Source: MSNBC.com. Premium tuna fetches $100,000 at auction. (2009). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28503702/?gt1=43001
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