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Blues Heron

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24. nothing more puke-worthy

Reply to getagrip_already (Reply #20)

Sun Jan 6, 2019, 09:36 AM

Jan 2019

than some superstitious bs leading to the extinction of species

Tuna's good luck!!!
Ivory's good luck!
Rhino horn's good luck!!
Tiger Penis is VERY good luck!!!!

Cut it out morans! - the're all almost completely gone! Are you blind?

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Bluefin tuna sells for record $3.1 million at Tokyo fish market, but scarcity clouds celebration [View all] Zorro Jan 2019 OP

Over $5000 per pound. Crazy. n/t OnlinePoker Jan 2019 #1

@ $5000 a pound, you got to wonder if he was more interested in the radioactive cesium in it W T F Jan 2019 #3

Don't forget the Strontium-90. roamer65 Jan 2019 #21

Why? FBaggins Jan 2019 #31

Yes, that's ridiculous. That would be something like $100 for a single piece of tuna sashimi. Nitram Jan 2019 #4

I seen this happen plenty of times. paleotn Jan 2019 #9

True. I'm reading that the winning bidder competes with one other bidder, and he lost to him last Nitram Jan 2019 #28

Wouldn't the fish spoil before they could sell much of it? Owl Jan 2019 #18

no..... getagrip_already Jan 2019 #20

nothing more puke-worthy Blues Heron Jan 2019 #24

GOP testicals bring good luck and great health to those..... getagrip_already Jan 2019 #25

heh heh! Blues Heron Jan 2019 #27

15-16 year old tuna, should be illegal to fish/sell mature breeders. Sunlei Jan 2019 #2

The Bluefin will be economically extinct within a decade Submariner Jan 2019 #5

This simply saddens me. c-rational Jan 2019 #6

This is disgusting if you think it through. PatrickforO Jan 2019 #7

God, I feel like weeping. This is a crime PatrickforO Jan 2019 #8

+1 violetpastille Jan 2019 #17

Only positive I see is the publicity brings a spot-light to the Tunas plight. Sunlei Jan 2019 #29

Capitalism, you've got to love it elmac Jan 2019 #10

Jeez, I hope he's "satisfied with the quality of the fish." Vinca Jan 2019 #11

The name of my live aboard marina before Irma. tavernier Jan 2019 #12

For what it is worth, and this is not to defend the practice, pangaia Jan 2019 #13

Sadly, the higher the price, higher the fishing Apollyonus Jan 2019 #14

As with whaling, Japan would ignore it. OnlinePoker Jan 2019 #16

That price was ceremonial only..... getagrip_already Jan 2019 #26

Prestige howardmappel Jan 2019 #15

No one with any functioning brain cells would celebrate such a thing...not even the one selling it pecosbob Jan 2019 #19

A lot of money for a radioactive fish. roamer65 Jan 2019 #22

The Chernobyl disaster was the big release of Strontium-90. EX500rider Jan 2019 #30

The ocean called, it's running out of tuna. betsuni Jan 2019 #23