Comment by NoMoreNicksLeft
2 years ago
I suspect that in 50 years, few people will be eating any seafood that isn't cultivated (aquaculture). Not out of choice, and not because of changing cultural values (it is tasty, after all). But because there's just none left. Saw a headline on reddit the other day, $800,000 for a single bluefin tuna. Granted, it was large (over 500 lbs), but you don't hold auctions with winning bids approaching a million dollars on a single fish when they're still in easy supply.
I had assumed that this article would be talking about bluefin, was slightly surprised. It's kind of screwed up, if you ask me.
Not a fan of sushi, and I guess I didn't know what a poke ball, but it's not just the fish favored by Japanese cuisine. I don't even know when the last time I would've eaten real cod at Long John's... in the 1980's as a kid? Now it's all something like Alaskan pollock or whatever. Gulf coast shrimp, shellfish off the east coast, very little of it seems to be in good status.
> $800,000 for a single bluefin tuna. Granted, it was large (over 500 lbs), but you don't hold auctions with winning bids approaching a million dollars on a single fish when they're still in easy supply.
That had nothing to do with supply. It was the first tuna of the season and people bid on it as a status symbol.
These crazy prices are typically bought for the advertising of having paid those prices, they aren’t a reflection of cost of the goods. The 800k fish was the first fish auctioned in the new year, which gets a lot of news cycles given the importance of the auction in Japan.
Even now, I thought most tuna were farmed. There are certainly lots of large farms in the Mediterranean.
An edible pokeball would be something