re: Possible new world Yellowfin record

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I mean the japanese, are they as high a commodity to them as the Bluefin?

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I would think so. That is where we got Amerian sushi(which uses yellowfin,salmon,white fish,etc.) from. Yellowfin are never shipped to Japan from the US from what I know but I do know bluefin are shipped over there because they like the fattier meat and bluefin is considered more of a delicacy over there. My parent's company used to ship a few bluefin a year to Japan but it was a risk. Anything can happen to that fish while on the way there and it depended on the meat color and more so the fat(marbling in the meat) content. They had a broker over there to handle the transactions and the bluefin would be auctioned off. I would venture to say that they eat a lot more yellowfin than bluefin over there though.