Comments on: Bluefin Tuna Is Still on the Menu: Trade Ban Fails at International Summit

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:26:03 +0000

I have no anti-jap sentiment, and I know that they bring up that reason simply as a way to counter the clear-cut charge thrown at them. They love their fish, so much that they just can’t give it up, and now the whole world is pressuring them to abandon it (at least in the short term), so out comes all the crap reasoning from them. It’s weird actually; because the japs are generally very smart and responsible.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:14:06 +0000

So we don’t want to save it, but we’ll continue hunting and eating it all until we run out? Then what? No more bluefin sushi. Kind of a no brainer here isn’t it?

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:03:15 +0000

Oh, this makes all kind of sense. Why save the tuna when we can hunt it to extinction? Let’s have all the tuna today, because we’re all we care about! Even the kids and grandkids don’t rate!

The bluefin is a remarkable creature and therefore we must love it to death?!

This has nothing to do with some alleged anti-Japanese sentiment. This has everything to do with the worldwide failure to successfully manage marine stocks. No one owns them and all the incentive is to get there first with the biggest boats and nets (before someone else does).

Take a look at salmon, cod, tuna, sturgeon, shark, halibut, lobster, crab, turtle, whale and a hundred others. They are all in various stages of trouble. Meanwhile non-commercial species like jellyfish thrive to the point of massive (and bizarre) blooms.

At this rate the commercial fishing industry is going the way of buggy whip manufacturers. It’s just that the end of large scale buggy whip manufacturing didn’t deprive the world of hundreds of beautiful and useful species. Shameful!

By: laskdjf

laskdjf — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:56:05 +0000

Hey Canada if you’re so great then why don’t you stop killing the seals????!!!! …D**ks.

[Moderator's note: Edited the cuss word.]

By: JMW

JMW — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:50:23 +0000

#3 Katharine…
[sarcasm] Yeah, none of that stuff was their fault, so there’s no reason to be anti-Japanese [/sarcasm].

Personally, I don’t know if there’s an anti-Japan sentiment building out in the real world. I know that I don’t have it. I’d prefer they didn’t kill whales and dolphins. I’m not surprised by Toyota’s troubles – I’ve seen it coming ever since they started…what did they call it…”de-contenting” their cars, to make them less expensive – i.e., using cheaper components.

It just goes to show that it’s not just the Judeo-Christian viewpoint that treats the Earth like our own private playground. Bottom line, people are going to do whatever they think is right, and if they think today that eating tuna, shark fin soup or killing dolphins is okay, they’ll go ahead and do it.

As a Canadian with knowledge of (though no direct impact from) the collapse of the cod fishery, I think we can tell them that they should learn from our mistakes.

By: Doug Watts

Doug Watts — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:50:34 +0000

Yay, extinction is good !!!

Look what it has done for passenger pigeon exports.

By: Katharine

Katharine — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:52:44 +0000

I think the Japanese got it backwards. The rising anti-Japan sentiment is because of the Toyota crap and the dolphin killing and the bluefin tuna.

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:25:33 +0000

I hear ya doug, but man i do love my bluefin tuna sandwich….

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:38:15 +0000

So what you’re saying is absolutely no policy was changed… At all. And we wonder why so many animals are threatened with extinction…..