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Tuna Shortage Triggers Sushi Crisis

Japanese chefs resort to deer and even horse meat

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 25, 2007 4:21 AM CDT

(Newser) – Plummeting supplies of tuna have become a recipe for disaster in Japan, where sushi lovers eat 60,000 tons of the fish a year. Desperate chefs are experimenting with increasingly bizarre sushi substitutes, including deer and even horse, the New York Times reports. But sushi without tuna in Japan is like American baseball without hotdogs.

“This has been devastating to Japan’s national esteem," said one analyst. Tuna supplies are dwindling because the appetite for the delicacy outside Japan is on the rise just as limits on tuna catches are being reduced.

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Workers harvest blue fin tuna from Maricultura's tuna pens March. 5, 2007 near Ensenada, Mexico. Pacific bluefin tuna leave Japan's coastal waters and swim east to school off California and Mexico. They return by nonstop flights from Los Angeles International Airport as slabs of fresh toro, the foie gras of...
Workers harvest blue fin tuna from Maricultura's tuna pens March. 5, 2007 near Ensenada, Mexico. Pacific bluefin tuna leave Japan's coastal waters and swim east to school off California and Mexico. They...   (Associated Press)
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