Illegal Fishing
For the past 20 years, Japan has exceeded its legal fishing quotas and plundered an extra 178,000 tonnes of tuna. With stocks now on the verge of collapse, authorities are promoting farmed tuna.
"It was international fraud", complains fisherman Hagen Stehr. In a tacit admission of guilt, Japan agreed to slash its quota by 50%. Japanese scientists are now refining the technology to breed the perfect factory farm tuna. "Natural resources are decreasing so more shops will have to deal with farmed tuna", states seller Tsunenori Lida. But purists claim that nothing can match the taste of wild fish.
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