I just got back from Santa Monica Seafood to pick up some oysters and halibut to have for dinner tonight, we will be pairing it with a Garretson Rousanne. The halibut was a nice size filet, but it cost $25. To me, this seems pretty high. Why is it that seafood has become so damn expensive? Has it always been this way? I looked around online to see what was going on with seafood prices and came across a pretty interesting article. Last week in Tokyo, a Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner paid a record $55,700 for a single bluefin tuna. They say the record price was caused by a sharp decline in world tuna supply and also go on to say that bluefin tuna will most likely be extinct sometime in the next fifty years. What a bleak picture for us sushi lovers! Could it be possible that our generation will be one of the last to enjoy fresh sushi from the ocean? I truly shudder at the thought of a world without sushi, it will inevitably be a an exlusive priveleged only food. I am also concerned that with globalization, countries like China and India will continue to develop and acquire a taste for sushi, seafood, and fine wine. Well, apparently supply is not going up, and as demand increases the prices will start to increase dramatically.
I can tell you one thing... I will happily pay $25 for that piece of Halibut and will eat as much damn sushi as I can this year. Hopefully I won't have to explain to my kids one day how delicious a filet of bluefin sashimi tasted with a splash of say sauce and a glass of sake.
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What concerns me more than the rise in sushi prices is the perhaps inevitable extinction of, a one once common and in major surplus species, the bluefin tuna. It saddens me to think that humans are overfishing the bluefin tuna without giving the species time to replenish their numbers. I propose fishing stipulations. Yes this will create a rise in price of sushi, but I'd rather pay more money than the highest price of not having tuna survive humanity in our very own lifetime. Isn't time we sacrifice something for a species rather than they scarifice their species for our tastebuds? This is what makes me shudder.
What concerns me more than the rise in sushi prices is the perhaps inevitable extinction of, a one once common and in major surplus species, the bluefin tuna. It saddens me to think that humans are overfishing the bluefin tuna without giving the species time to replenish their numbers. I propose fishing stipulations. Yes this will create a rise in price of sushi, but I'd rather pay more money than the highest price of not having tuna survive humanity in our very own lifetime. Isn't time we sacrifice something for a species rather than they scarifice their species for our tastebuds? This is what makes me shudder.
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