Japan's appetite for fish is depleting stocks, threatening restaurants

 

Japan's appetite for eel and other fish has depleted the ocean's supplies and raised international outcries to halt Japan's overfishing. Last year, for instance, eelers caught 267 tons from natural habitats, a drop of two-thirds from the amount caught a decade earlier. "The sad story of Japanese unagi is just one of the many examples of how Japan's voracious appetite for fish has created problems for itself," said Hiroyuki Matsuda, eel resource researcher at Yokohama National University. Click here to read on.

Photo: A fish dealer pushes a cart of sliced tuna at Tsukiji Wholesale Market in Tokyo. Credit: David Guttenfelder / Associated Press 

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[Richard C. Mongler]

I can't believe anyone is complaining about this. Fish has always been a staple food for Japan. It's not like they can just start raising cattle instead, since they don't have the vast amounts of land that we do in America. Other countries have started eating more fish because sushi is now considered trendy, which is a huge part of the problem. How incredibly arrogant and racist.