Bluefin--the most prized of all tunas--are quickly going extinct. The tsunami may have set back plans to keep toro refrigerated for future sushi lovers, but fish farmers are close to a breakthrough.
In the late 1960s, a Japan Airlines cargo executive named Akira Okazaki needed a practical solution to Japan’s trade imbalance with the United States. Planes bearing cameras and electronics to New York were returning empty. Searching for something suitably expensive, Okazaki settled on bluefin tuna, which was fast becoming a delicacy at the time. Today, the extinction of that fish is a very real possibility. Bluefin appeared doomed until an earthquake and tsunami intervened--and will still be doomed unless we can learn to successfully farm the wildest fish of all.
Intially, Okazaki's success seemed modest enough. On August 14, 1972--the “Day of the Flying Fish"--the first tuna airlifted from Nova Scotia were sold at Tokyo’s Tsukiji...
In the late 1960s, a Japan Airlines cargo executive named Akira Okazaki needed a practical solution to Japan’s trade imbalance with the United States. Planes bearing cameras and electronics to New York were returning empty. Searching for something suitably expensive, Okazaki settled on bluefin tuna, which was fast becoming a delicacy at the time. Today, the extinction of that fish is a very real possibility. Bluefin appeared doomed until an earthquake and tsunami intervened--and will still be doomed unless we can learn to successfully farm the wildest fish of all.
Intially, Okazaki's success seemed modest enough. On August 14, 1972--the “Day of the Flying Fish"--the first tuna airlifted from Nova Scotia were sold at Tokyo’s Tsukiji...
- 8/9/2011
- by Greg Lindsay
- Fast Company
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