At 5 a.m. in Tokyo, before most commuters had poured their first cup of coffee, a bell rang at the Toyosu fish market and a single bluefin tuna rewrote auction history. The 243-kilogram fish sold for 510 million yen, or about $3.2 million, at the market’s first auction of the year. The price was so […]
For centuries, dragons have embodied prosperity, power, and mystery in Asian culture. Today, that legend lives on in the Asian arowana, famously known as the dragon fish and hailed as the world’s most expensive aquarium fish. Native to the rivers and swamps of Southeast Asia, this ancient predator moves with elegant precision, its metallic scales […]
Plastic pollution remains a pressing global environmental issue, and South Australia has taken a notable step to address it by banning fish-shaped soy sauce bottles, the tiny containers commonly used with sushi. Effective from Monday, the ban targets these miniature bottles because they pose a greater environmental risk than other single-use plastics. As reported by […]
Asia leads global farmed fish production (Image credit: AFP) The amount of farmed seafood we consume — as opposed to that taken wild from our waters — is soaring every year, making aquaculture an ever-more important source for many diets, and a response to overfishing.According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, nearly 99 million […]
