Multitudes of people are intimate with the distinct texture and flavor of bluefin meat.
Commissioned by the Pew Environment Group, it finds that last year 140% more bluefin meat from the Med entered the market than was reported as caught.
Flavorful bluefin meat has long been a sought-after delicacy.
The NGS also notes, "The Atlantic bluefin tuna is one of the largest, fastest, and most gorgeously colored of all the world's fishes" and also "bluefin meat also happens to be regarded as surpassingly delicious, particularly among sashimi eaters, and overfishing throughout their range has driven their numbers to critically low levels".
Domestic Sweet and fresh seafood: Two and a quarter pounds of enormous chunks of lump bluefin crab meat, $58.
Where are the Silicon Valley start-ups promising to free us from the guilt of gobbling down a finger of otoro sushi, the rich bluefin belly meat, without contributing to the decline of the fish or the decline of our own health via mercury that accumulates in the flesh of this apex predator?
Still, the CITES meeting not only failed to enact a ban on trade in Bluefin tuna meat (very expensive Japanese sushi), but also rejected any protection for seven species of highly endangered sharks (used in shark fin soup, a gelatinous $100 a bowl status symbol in China).
What's now the most expensive cut of tuna, the fatty belly-meat of bluefin tuna called otoro and shimofuri, was cat-food until the 1950s: it became a delicacy as a result of a Japanese government marketing campaign to deal with tuna shortages caused, it's said, by nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific.
For sushi aficionados, the essence of the Atlantic bluefin tuna is its fat-laced, butter-soft belly meat, called toro.
At the far end of the runway, under the glass eyes and gaping mouth of a mounted bluefin tuna head, were two red pieces of raw meat, a lamb loin and a steak.
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