A single big imported tuna fish recently sold in Japan for the stunning price of more than $1,000,000. Those tuna stocks are in steep decline from overfishing, and that’s stimulating counter-efforts to preserve this valuable resource by agreeing on sustainable catches and by imposing fishing quotas. Incredibly, when those tuna stocks were proposed in 2010 for international protection (so-called CITES listing), Japan wasn’t the initiator of the proposal. Instead, Japan viewed it as a diplomatic triumph to have succeeded in blocking the proposal.
