The bid to corner world's bluefin tuna market
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in Conservation, Species, bluefin, overfishing, the end of the line

 

Japan's sprawling Mitsubishi conglomerate has cornered a 40 per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna, one of the world's most endangered fish.

In the documentary film The End of the Line, Roberto Mielgo, a former bluefin fisherman who travels the world monitoring catches, claims that Mitsubishi buys and sells 60 per cent of the threatened fish and that it has expanded its freezer capacity to hold extra bluefin.

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