February Sales of Imported Fresh Tuna at Toyosu Market Plummet
According to data compiled by Jiji Press, 180 imported tuna arrived at the fresh tuna section of Tokyo's Toyosu Market in February; about a quarter of the 670 in the same month last year. In addition to sharp declines in bluefins and southern bluefin tuna, no bigeye tuna arrived.
Suisan Keizai Shimbun reported that the total number of bluefin tuna was 93 (compared to 398 in the same month last year). This year there were no Korean purse seine fish, compared to 350 fish a year ago. The mainstay...
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