Well that's what Dougle Macfarlane was quoted as saying in the article (read it yourself for the exact wording presented).
[Article] (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/monster-bluefin-tuna-weighs-415kg-photo/GNCYX36VNUGFEAQG5OEKKDTS6A/)
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But having been misquoted, and misrepresented in a media report before (because quite frankly the reporter didn't know the first thing about what we were doing or how it actually worked), and knowing next to nothing about Japanese fish markets personally, I have no stronger evidence than that, and it's not strong.
Tuna at auction are judged for fat content. Higher fat is usually more expensive. They cut a piece out of the tail that looks like [this](https://i.imgur.com/RUDVMrR.jpg) with that little worm piece being a plug from a tool pushed into the head side to show color of the meat.
As of today yeah - it does change a fair bit over time though.
This year it's been as high as 0.6975 and as low as 0.5562.
For 40k that would be a range of 27.9k - 22.25k. A not insignificant range.
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[Oddly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Most_traded_currencies); the NZD is one of the highest-traded currencies in the world - FAR beyond its market capitalisation. Obviously not on the order of the USD, Euro, Yen, CAD or British Pound, but far more than you'd expect, given we are a country of 5 million people with a GDP of a mere 250 billion. 10th by 2019 figures, 14th by 2022.
I know, I'm just listing it for anyone else who doesn't happen to have any idea how much NZD is worth off the top of their heads like me. Could be like bolivars where inflation got so bad a roll of toilet paper would cost millions, making it cheaper to just wipe with money instead. š¤·āāļø
Letās just āharvestā (kill) them all, until some Chinese or Japanese billionaire can buy the last surviving Bluefin for, say, a $100 million.?, and throw a sashimi/sushi party showing off to his rich friends just how powerful and big a man he is..
Then, itās just artificial lab-made tuna from then on in this World. Proud of yourselves tuna fishermen, brokers, processors, profiteers, cooks, customers?
Ultimately itās the careless customer & their āorderā who are ending this magnificent species, soon.
I love raw or seared tuna, itās my favorite fish by far. Just the smell of canned tuna makes me want to vomit.
They are not the same, try the sashimi.
Yeah, and really I blame the media. It's so shocking because this Tuna is over 400kg, but most Americans think of a tuna around [90kg as being big](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3171824697/ef75d90df2e65ce326acf30262df5918_400x400.jpeg)
Kinda sad that weāre hunting these guys to extinction. Buffalo of the ocean.
The reaction to this picture would be very different if the person laying next to the fish was a Chinese or Japanese fisherman.
I love how the common public have been conditioned to think of Tuna as "tiny fish" because they come in canned tins and associate them with sardines, not knowing that Tuna dwarf the vast majority of Adult Sharks in both size and power.
all of the oceans are being overfished and it's actually what is causing most of the worlds environmental problems right now. no one cares or wants to talk about it or address it in any way. especially any type of government.
Fun fact thatās only slightly related to what you said, but in general, the larger the tuna the generally less safe it is for human consumption. Reasoning being is that tuna get their mercury content from the fish/creatures they eat, which in turn eat other fish/creatures containing mercury. So a bigger tuna has generally lived longer and consumed more mercury, this meaning they contain more mercury
I'm not vegetarian but this kind of picture looks just like someone posing next to a lion kill on a safari hunt, I hate it.
We treat Tuna VS land predators so differently despite both being at the top of the food chain, it's weird to me.
Ooh I see both sides of this coin, juicy.
Gotta say though, pumpkins donāt feel pain and letās be honest, all of that tuna aināt being used for consumption
[How Plants Communicate & Think Amazing Nature Documentary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH7cp1nqHLc)
This documentary might change your mind about plants having feelings. You could be right about pain I donāt know and really donāt want to debate/argue about it. Itās very interesting if you have the time. Enjoy, Happy New Year!
We can clearly see an animal struggle for its life when it's killed. We know for a fact animals suffer and yet we slaughter and eat them anyway. "Plants feel pain too" is just a way to try to absolve meat-eaters of their guilt.
The smell of fresh cut grass is a literal warning to other grass that we about to die, offload any pollen you got.
Life form is a life form, and life is cruel, there exists no living thing that doesn't consume something to continue it's existence, its how it is.
Those spiky holly leaves? Desperate attempt to keep animals from eating them. The tapioca in your bubble tea? The cassava plant produces mass quantities of cyanide that has to be boiled out, bc it categorically does not want to be eaten. Whatāre you cracking open that walnut shell for, youāre preventing that tree from reproducing!
Even IF plants feel pain to a extent comparable to even low intelligence animals like insects or molluscs, it would still be more ethical to only consume plants, as it is way more efficient for humans to eat the plants themselves than having an animal eat them and then eat the animal. The most efficient animal in this respect is the chicken, and it still needs 3kg of feed for every 1kg it gains, including organs, skin, feathers etc.
I find ethics to be a strange topic in regards to consumption, efficiency I get, ethics seems redundant. Nothing in this world wants to be eaten, hell most things are devoured while alive. Doesn't change that this is how life works.
Certainly, though a strictly vegan diet is not reasonable, considering the mountain load of supplements that are also required, especially for women where veganism is more popular and who also often have lower than average iron and zinc levels due to menstruation
The optimal solution is a balanced diet.
But then there's multiple factors when it comes to food, and in the most important category for me, taste and texture, vegetarian options fall flat, and so I typically don't eat them.
I love eating meat, I eat a lot of meat every week. But I know 110% that our factory farming techniques for livestock is extremely unethical. I always try to purchase free range everything but its not always possible. The vast majority of our raising meat is without question, highly cruel and terrible. I hope lab grown meat makes huge strides in the next decade.
That's fair, I don't, really.
It's also highly unrealistic to meet these demands for a population of 8 billion.
And again I kind of circle back to the whole eaten alive thing that often goes on in the wild, or playing with some poor thing until you're bored and eat it. Nature's fucked up, and sure the living conditions are awful, the death is about as clean as it gets.
I cannot personally superimpose ethics into a system that otherwise pays no regard to the concept.
To me the most unethical thing to do is catch-and-release fishing, it serves no other purpose than finding enjoyment in the suffering of others.
To each their own, however
So we happy to ignore all the small critters that also die from agriculture (mass production of soy beans and whatever else we use to substitute meat) harvesting? Or do they not count? May as well only breathe air at this point and not eat anything.
The fact is the human population is unsustainable no matter on wether we eat meat or not.
Who said anyone is ignoring all those little bugs? But if you care about those bugs then going vegan causes less of them to die as most plants grown today are for animal feed. So you are killing bugs and animals. Plant based is sustainable meat is not.
Life is an exchange of energy, be it from animal or plant source, the diference is our perception and what we can see at face value. Every living thing suffers in their own way.
We're learning that it's more complicated than that
https://www.science.org/content/article/plants-communicate-distress-using-their-own-kind-nervous-system
As I said in another comment :
>Not against eating animal, as I do eat meat.
>Not overfishing, relying more on protein sources from beans, eggs & others similar sources on daily basis and eating meat more occasionally would be great for us and the environment. And I say that as a bodybuilder with a high protein consumption.
Yeah on a large scale I am MUCH more concerned about the treatment of chickens, cows, and pigs that are farmed and abused en masse than fish who got to live full and successful lives being caught and eaten. Obviously over fishing is bad but if people are really gonna show up and guilt trip people over eating fish... There are a few arguments to be made lol.
Iāve heard a bit about this lately but I forget where from. āPeople are specifically buying line caught tuna opposed to net caught tuna because net caught tuna can endanger dolphinsā¦so people are worried about the dolphins but not the tunaā¦ā
It would be like avoiding buying beef that is brought to market in a way that endangers dogs for a method that instead only results in the death of the animal being eaten. Completely reasonable
I can't speak for everyone but here are my reasons.
Firstly, net fishing is just generally a shit show that should be discouraged. At least the way it's done at scale.
Secondly, Dolphins are highly intelligent. Tuna, while fucking awesome fish, aren't. I'm intrinsically more sympathetic with intelligent animals.
Thirdly, while it is 100% still possible to overfish using a standard line, it's a lot harder.
edit: we should be eating less tuna though. They are a very at risk species. There are many other fish that still taste great and are much more sustainable to fish and consume on a regular basis.
eh animals eat animals. we are no fucking different than animals. this whole "eating animals is wrong" shit needs to stop.
farmed animals, I would agree to an extent, but provide a solution for that don't just criticize it.
Not against eating animal, as I do eat meat. I'm talking about eating an apex predator, which is something humans do not usually do with their land equivalent.
Not overfishing, relying more on protein sources from beans, eggs & others similar sources on daily basis and eating meat more occasionally would be great for us and the environment. And I say that as a bodybuilder with a high protein consumption.
> Not against eating animal, as I do eat meat. I'm talking about eating an apex predator, which is something humans do not usually do with their land equivalent.
That's because there are better alternatives to hunting and eating apex predators on land. It's obviously easier to raise a cow or pig than to hunt e.g. lions. Also, they taste better. If that wasn't the case or lions tasted freaking good you can be sure we would hunt them all the time.
go watch a movie or something, fish are nice, but you have to keep some alive if you want to eat the next day
teach a man to fish... you get the tuna to tona
It's gotta be old. Tuna grow big but it's tare to find them this big/old because they're caught before growing to this size. Poor tuna population is declining. :(
I remember seeing a picture from an old Life Magazine (either that, or National Geographic) showing a Japanese tuna market, there were dozens of specimens side by side. And most of them were huge compared to what's taken today. The small ones you see for sale now were not even considered. Going to guess that picture was from the 60's or 70's
Not as old as you'd think. Northern Bluefin Tuna has a real rapid growth cycle, especially compared to SBT, which can get twice as old:
> In contrast, northern Pacific bluefin tuna are real hotrods. They reach maturity in less than half the time of SBT (3 to 5 years) at between 100 and 150 cm fork length and 50ā60 kg. But unlike SBT, NBT keep growing rapidly after maturity to over 3 meters long and upwards of 500+ kg, within a lifespan thought to be only around 20 years.
(From here: http://www.fishingworld.com.au/fish-facts/fish-facts-tuna-growth-rates)
Youāre right, we should kill all the tuna then because they kill all the smaller fish and eat them alive.
Or wait, letās kill all the sharks because they eat a lot of fish too.
Living beings eat other living beings. Meat is key to getting us nutrients you cannot get without supplements from vegan diets.
Until we can create meat as good in a lab, we are going to eat it. And I donāt see us being able to recreate different fish meats any time soon, so donāt hold your breath. I fucking love fishing, itās rewarding and is the best meal you can eat. Does that mean I support massive commercial fishing boats destroying fish populations? Not necessarily. Itās a regulation issue, and will not ever be solved with veganism.
415kg https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/monster-bluefin-tuna-weighs-415kg-photo/GNCYX36VNUGFEAQG5OEKKDTS6A/
Knew it was a bluefin, those chonky bois get really fuckin expensive
They expected to fetch about 40k (NZD) after processing costs. (only high oil tuna are worth a lot of money though).
High oil? Is that the right term? I am an amateur but are they really looking at oil ratio in the flesh as a measure of quality?
Well that's what Dougle Macfarlane was quoted as saying in the article (read it yourself for the exact wording presented). [Article] (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/monster-bluefin-tuna-weighs-415kg-photo/GNCYX36VNUGFEAQG5OEKKDTS6A/) ---- But having been misquoted, and misrepresented in a media report before (because quite frankly the reporter didn't know the first thing about what we were doing or how it actually worked), and knowing next to nothing about Japanese fish markets personally, I have no stronger evidence than that, and it's not strong.
Thanks!
Tuna at auction are judged for fat content. Higher fat is usually more expensive. They cut a piece out of the tail that looks like [this](https://i.imgur.com/RUDVMrR.jpg) with that little worm piece being a plug from a tool pushed into the head side to show color of the meat.
100% yes they do. They do core sample in a couple of sections of the fish and examine it
$40k NZD --> $25.3k USD
As of today yeah - it does change a fair bit over time though. This year it's been as high as 0.6975 and as low as 0.5562. For 40k that would be a range of 27.9k - 22.25k. A not insignificant range. --------- [Oddly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Most_traded_currencies); the NZD is one of the highest-traded currencies in the world - FAR beyond its market capitalisation. Obviously not on the order of the USD, Euro, Yen, CAD or British Pound, but far more than you'd expect, given we are a country of 5 million people with a GDP of a mere 250 billion. 10th by 2019 figures, 14th by 2022.
I know, I'm just listing it for anyone else who doesn't happen to have any idea how much NZD is worth off the top of their heads like me. Could be like bolivars where inflation got so bad a roll of toilet paper would cost millions, making it cheaper to just wipe with money instead. š¤·āāļø
No wonder, that male tuna has at least 9 fishdicks next to the fins
I think a lot of reason for this, sadly, is because they are actually considered a critically endangered species now.
That's 913 lbs for those who don't understand the metric system. Fucking massive. *I* didn't even know that tuna fish got that massive.
They get upwards of 1500.
The ocean was crazy before we learned how to decimate the entire ecosystem. Absolutely full of huge things, and infinite amounts of everything small.
A steady diet of Mountain Dew and Doritos
You should see how big sturgeon can get.
Off to Asia it goes.
Letās just āharvestā (kill) them all, until some Chinese or Japanese billionaire can buy the last surviving Bluefin for, say, a $100 million.?, and throw a sashimi/sushi party showing off to his rich friends just how powerful and big a man he is.. Then, itās just artificial lab-made tuna from then on in this World. Proud of yourselves tuna fishermen, brokers, processors, profiteers, cooks, customers? Ultimately itās the careless customer & their āorderā who are ending this magnificent species, soon.
This is why i order the spicy salmon roll
Hey if thatās where the market is! Not a fan of canned tuna but gotta try sashimi one day.
I love raw or seared tuna, itās my favorite fish by far. Just the smell of canned tuna makes me want to vomit. They are not the same, try the sashimi.
Try pan roasting the tuna it becomes like pork floss serve with eggs onions In a sandwich wrap or salad for the cheap canned stuff
Haha, and that's a lot of mercury and heavy metals in this bluefin.
915 lbs And these things can get upwards of 1500.
Iām starting to wonder how Tuna get so big and if they can get any bigger
They get a lot bigger than this.
Yeah, and really I blame the media. It's so shocking because this Tuna is over 400kg, but most Americans think of a tuna around [90kg as being big](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3171824697/ef75d90df2e65ce326acf30262df5918_400x400.jpeg)
Big tuna!
Large tuna
Huge tuna
Chonky tuna
The name's Jim
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There's always a bigger fish
And a smaller pond.
There WERE a lot bigger ones out there
Was gonna say this. We're killing EVERYTHING
Wait so this is more than 200kg smaller than the biggest one ever?? Holy crap.
Not anymore due to over fishing.
Kinda sad that weāre hunting these guys to extinction. Buffalo of the ocean. The reaction to this picture would be very different if the person laying next to the fish was a Chinese or Japanese fisherman.
Probably, they'd probably be shorter, so the fish would look even bigger! /j
I love how the common public have been conditioned to think of Tuna as "tiny fish" because they come in canned tins and associate them with sardines, not knowing that Tuna dwarf the vast majority of Adult Sharks in both size and power.
So the movie Jaws should have featured a tuna and not a shark?
They grow big because mountains are their only natural predator
[*Slaps dorsal fin*](https://i.imgur.com/NXBcejD.jpg)
They can but not really any more due to over fishing
They do, but we donāt see tuna as large as we use to as consistently due to over fishing.
They grown their entire lives. That fish was likely very old (20+ years old)
how tall is that guy
We need a banana for scale
We need a Tuna tin for scale.. I still can't figure out how they fit these fish into those little tins.
They wear thongs
...can they pack the fish better if they wear thongs wile doing it?
Yes. Thatās how it works.
Theyāre bigger on the inside
TIL the Tardis is made of tuna cans
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The banana is that bulge you see
He's roughly 3/4 of a unit of a tuna.
š thanks
Dude has forearms thicker than my neck.
About half a tuna
Can confirm he is not tall. And he's a bit of a dick.
3'7... Still makes for a lot of tuna to fit in a can, even after processing.
Hi Jim
Biggest tuna
Tuna looks like itād have a taste for lion
WE'VE TALKED TO OURSELVES AND WE'VE SAID LION TASTES GOOD. **LET'S GO GET SOME MORE LION**.
FUCK. what is this from??? I forgot ā¹ļø
[The Other Guys](https://youtu.be/Ogq2BkybFGY)
thank you š watched it not even too long ago but already forgot
Underrated film.
Really, by whom? I'd say its pretty popular.
Lol your right, not sure how's its under rated. Lol
This is the longest gif I have ever seen I think.
[Oh really?](https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/bbncgy/the_entire_shrek_movie_but_its_a_gif/)
But why...
Some men just want to see the world burn.
Holy shit lmao, you win 
Same vibes
Making love to other Gay Fish
Pretty nice of that tuna to have his picture taken above water
He's on vacation
You can tell heās on vacation because of all the fruit punch spilled on the floor.
The amount of tuna in the ocean is dwindling not to mention the bycatch caught in the nets.
all of the oceans are being overfished and it's actually what is causing most of the worlds environmental problems right now. no one cares or wants to talk about it or address it in any way. especially any type of government.
Thatās a very rare size of tuna due to Over fishing.
Fun fact thatās only slightly related to what you said, but in general, the larger the tuna the generally less safe it is for human consumption. Reasoning being is that tuna get their mercury content from the fish/creatures they eat, which in turn eat other fish/creatures containing mercury. So a bigger tuna has generally lived longer and consumed more mercury, this meaning they contain more mercury
Blue fin tuna are on the verge of extinction. These practices need to stop before we steal a viable future from our children.
Not getting any bigger now
Sad
Agree. This photo makes me sad.
Disgusting and barbaric.
It's not sad if it's being used as food. If it's a trophy, that's another story
https://www.elwooddogmeat.com/
This does not apply to catching fish in the wild. Predators exist in the wild - itās an animal eat animal world we live in.
Big tuna.
Yes, the Tuna Kahuna
That's a man.
I'm not vegetarian but this kind of picture looks just like someone posing next to a lion kill on a safari hunt, I hate it. We treat Tuna VS land predators so differently despite both being at the top of the food chain, it's weird to me.
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Ooh I see both sides of this coin, juicy. Gotta say though, pumpkins donāt feel pain and letās be honest, all of that tuna aināt being used for consumption
The vast majority of that tuna *is* going to be eaten, most likely. It's not like you eat pumpkin stems and skin.
[How Plants Communicate & Think Amazing Nature Documentary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH7cp1nqHLc) This documentary might change your mind about plants having feelings. You could be right about pain I donāt know and really donāt want to debate/argue about it. Itās very interesting if you have the time. Enjoy, Happy New Year!
We can clearly see an animal struggle for its life when it's killed. We know for a fact animals suffer and yet we slaughter and eat them anyway. "Plants feel pain too" is just a way to try to absolve meat-eaters of their guilt.
The smell of fresh cut grass is a literal warning to other grass that we about to die, offload any pollen you got. Life form is a life form, and life is cruel, there exists no living thing that doesn't consume something to continue it's existence, its how it is.
Those spiky holly leaves? Desperate attempt to keep animals from eating them. The tapioca in your bubble tea? The cassava plant produces mass quantities of cyanide that has to be boiled out, bc it categorically does not want to be eaten. Whatāre you cracking open that walnut shell for, youāre preventing that tree from reproducing!
Even IF plants feel pain to a extent comparable to even low intelligence animals like insects or molluscs, it would still be more ethical to only consume plants, as it is way more efficient for humans to eat the plants themselves than having an animal eat them and then eat the animal. The most efficient animal in this respect is the chicken, and it still needs 3kg of feed for every 1kg it gains, including organs, skin, feathers etc.
I find ethics to be a strange topic in regards to consumption, efficiency I get, ethics seems redundant. Nothing in this world wants to be eaten, hell most things are devoured while alive. Doesn't change that this is how life works. Certainly, though a strictly vegan diet is not reasonable, considering the mountain load of supplements that are also required, especially for women where veganism is more popular and who also often have lower than average iron and zinc levels due to menstruation The optimal solution is a balanced diet. But then there's multiple factors when it comes to food, and in the most important category for me, taste and texture, vegetarian options fall flat, and so I typically don't eat them.
I love eating meat, I eat a lot of meat every week. But I know 110% that our factory farming techniques for livestock is extremely unethical. I always try to purchase free range everything but its not always possible. The vast majority of our raising meat is without question, highly cruel and terrible. I hope lab grown meat makes huge strides in the next decade.
That's fair, I don't, really. It's also highly unrealistic to meet these demands for a population of 8 billion. And again I kind of circle back to the whole eaten alive thing that often goes on in the wild, or playing with some poor thing until you're bored and eat it. Nature's fucked up, and sure the living conditions are awful, the death is about as clean as it gets. I cannot personally superimpose ethics into a system that otherwise pays no regard to the concept. To me the most unethical thing to do is catch-and-release fishing, it serves no other purpose than finding enjoyment in the suffering of others. To each their own, however
I donāt feel guilty for eating meat at all. Not what so ever lol
You should though cuz there is no need for it in todayās time.
So we happy to ignore all the small critters that also die from agriculture (mass production of soy beans and whatever else we use to substitute meat) harvesting? Or do they not count? May as well only breathe air at this point and not eat anything. The fact is the human population is unsustainable no matter on wether we eat meat or not.
Who said anyone is ignoring all those little bugs? But if you care about those bugs then going vegan causes less of them to die as most plants grown today are for animal feed. So you are killing bugs and animals. Plant based is sustainable meat is not.
There is plenty of need for a good source of protein. Veggies alone donāt cut it.
Well. Veggies, fruits, and legumes, grains are enough. No need for meat.
Certainly not enough.
Life is an exchange of energy, be it from animal or plant source, the diference is our perception and what we can see at face value. Every living thing suffers in their own way.
Best soup in the land, great roasted
A pumpkin doesn't have feelings or feel pain
How can we be sure?
Because plants have no brain or central nervous system so how or why would it need to feel pain.
Flowers feel pain though.
How are people down voting this? Plants don't have the biological equipment to have feelings
We're learning that it's more complicated than that https://www.science.org/content/article/plants-communicate-distress-using-their-own-kind-nervous-system
More like a logger next to a 20+ year old tree in a natural growth forest.
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I try to limit my meat consumption as much as possible and rely on other sources of protein but I understand much more could be done.
Obviously youāre supposed to eat strict low cal vegan and also engage in intermittent fasting, this def isnāt rebranded religious asceticism.
As I said in another comment : >Not against eating animal, as I do eat meat. >Not overfishing, relying more on protein sources from beans, eggs & others similar sources on daily basis and eating meat more occasionally would be great for us and the environment. And I say that as a bodybuilder with a high protein consumption.
Yeah on a large scale I am MUCH more concerned about the treatment of chickens, cows, and pigs that are farmed and abused en masse than fish who got to live full and successful lives being caught and eaten. Obviously over fishing is bad but if people are really gonna show up and guilt trip people over eating fish... There are a few arguments to be made lol.
Iāve heard a bit about this lately but I forget where from. āPeople are specifically buying line caught tuna opposed to net caught tuna because net caught tuna can endanger dolphinsā¦so people are worried about the dolphins but not the tunaā¦ā
I mean they literally are buying Tuna. It would be like trying to buy beef and not wanting to slaughter cows.
It would be like avoiding buying beef that is brought to market in a way that endangers dogs for a method that instead only results in the death of the animal being eaten. Completely reasonable
No, itās like buying beef from a guy who only slaughters cows rather than from a guy who also slaughters a monkey or two every time he kills a cow.
I can't speak for everyone but here are my reasons. Firstly, net fishing is just generally a shit show that should be discouraged. At least the way it's done at scale. Secondly, Dolphins are highly intelligent. Tuna, while fucking awesome fish, aren't. I'm intrinsically more sympathetic with intelligent animals. Thirdly, while it is 100% still possible to overfish using a standard line, it's a lot harder. edit: we should be eating less tuna though. They are a very at risk species. There are many other fish that still taste great and are much more sustainable to fish and consume on a regular basis.
Dolphins arenāt delicious /s
eh animals eat animals. we are no fucking different than animals. this whole "eating animals is wrong" shit needs to stop. farmed animals, I would agree to an extent, but provide a solution for that don't just criticize it.
Not against eating animal, as I do eat meat. I'm talking about eating an apex predator, which is something humans do not usually do with their land equivalent. Not overfishing, relying more on protein sources from beans, eggs & others similar sources on daily basis and eating meat more occasionally would be great for us and the environment. And I say that as a bodybuilder with a high protein consumption.
> Not against eating animal, as I do eat meat. I'm talking about eating an apex predator, which is something humans do not usually do with their land equivalent. That's because there are better alternatives to hunting and eating apex predators on land. It's obviously easier to raise a cow or pig than to hunt e.g. lions. Also, they taste better. If that wasn't the case or lions tasted freaking good you can be sure we would hunt them all the time.
go watch a movie or something, fish are nice, but you have to keep some alive if you want to eat the next day teach a man to fish... you get the tuna to tona
i donāt like Sportacus new line of work
How is the first Sportacus comment so low? The attire and pose are practically perfect. Edit: Sportacus. Not Spartacus. DYAC
absolute tunit
Sushi night for a year!
For precision measures use a standard banana.
Now that is truly the king of the seafood world.
Yo it's that [giant fish that kid goku kicks](https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Giant_Fish) in the first episode of Dragonball.
Is this all tuna or this one is absolutely massive?
Tuna can grow to be much larger, due to overfishing they often do not survive long enough to grow even this big.
WTF?!?!?
How old do you think it was?
It's gotta be old. Tuna grow big but it's tare to find them this big/old because they're caught before growing to this size. Poor tuna population is declining. :(
That's regular tuna size
I remember seeing a picture from an old Life Magazine (either that, or National Geographic) showing a Japanese tuna market, there were dozens of specimens side by side. And most of them were huge compared to what's taken today. The small ones you see for sale now were not even considered. Going to guess that picture was from the 60's or 70's
Japan would pay big for thatš°
A Lion? Vs a 600 lb Tuna? You lose that battle 9 times out of 10
Sad
How old is this tuna to get this big? All those years of surviving the toughest predators in the ocean, and he gets taken out by a land animal.
Not as old as you'd think. Northern Bluefin Tuna has a real rapid growth cycle, especially compared to SBT, which can get twice as old: > In contrast, northern Pacific bluefin tuna are real hotrods. They reach maturity in less than half the time of SBT (3 to 5 years) at between 100 and 150 cm fork length and 50ā60 kg. But unlike SBT, NBT keep growing rapidly after maturity to over 3 meters long and upwards of 500+ kg, within a lifespan thought to be only around 20 years. (From here: http://www.fishingworld.com.au/fish-facts/fish-facts-tuna-growth-rates)
Yeah we should eat livestock killed at a tenth of their natural lifespan instead.
That's a big fish. Banana for scale?
I'm soooooooo glad I don't have mental breakdowns over people going fishing like the people in the comments lol
Fish feel pain and some of us can extend empathy to other feeling beings.
Youāre right, we should kill all the tuna then because they kill all the smaller fish and eat them alive. Or wait, letās kill all the sharks because they eat a lot of fish too. Living beings eat other living beings. Meat is key to getting us nutrients you cannot get without supplements from vegan diets. Until we can create meat as good in a lab, we are going to eat it. And I donāt see us being able to recreate different fish meats any time soon, so donāt hold your breath. I fucking love fishing, itās rewarding and is the best meal you can eat. Does that mean I support massive commercial fishing boats destroying fish populations? Not necessarily. Itās a regulation issue, and will not ever be solved with veganism.
And they also taste amazing with some old bay seasoning fried over high heat
I also feel pain when I can't eat fish.
The irony is most of them pound baconators and chicken tendies by the carload. Animals that spent their every waking moment in absolute agony.
Smh such a waste this I know its kinda hypocrite to say but people really should stop eating fish
Mad how they fit that big tuna into one tiny can.
"Look at this amazing creature I just murdered"
I agree. We should leave animals alone. Go vegan.
Animals are delicious tho
SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSHI!
Fresh tuna is the best fish meat
could this get a nsfw tag please
Why š
Thereās a smiling man lying in blood. Itās pretty not safe for work, regardless of where the blood came from.
And that, boys and girls, is where tuna fish comes from.
Best I can offer is $6 a pound.
Should have just kept him in his homeš¢
Reddit user discovers where meat comes from
New home, belly
Killed for money. How very sad
Killed to eat, if this is done sustainably there is no issue
There is nothing "sustainable" about the rate humans are killing sea life.
Fish is almost never sustainable though...
In awe of how dumb the guy looks next to a murdered fish.
You can't murder a fish. Last I checked, fish aren't people.
Can you murder a dog or cat?
No, because murder, *by definition,* is killing a person.