End of sushi??
 

Have you seen the latest radiation numbers from the Japan reactor and the adjacent ocean waters?? A frightened world is already boycotting Japanese fish and Japanese seaports, how many days or weeks will it be before sushi restaurants worldwide close down for lack of customers?

Akio Morita: Think globally, act locally

Local and cheaper fish will see their days of glory? I would readily welcome that.

I was under the impression that most fish is caught semi-locally - i.e., fish caught near Japan tends to be eaten in Japan.

I do know that much of the bluefin tuna consumed in Japan comes from the Mediterranean or other international waters - bluefin migrate across oceans. And they are woefully overfished, with the WWF and the French government saying that the bluefin will be extinct by 2013 at current rates. Japan has consistently fought listing the bluefin as an endangered species.

Also, are people really afraid to eat fish? Do you have any idea how much water there is in the ocean? You could pump water with a hundred of those hyper fire truck pumps for a year right through Chernobyl and still not have enough contaminated water to make the water in the Pacific ocean dangerous.

I cannot remember the last time I had sushi made of any fish caught in Japanese waters. Even the tuna I have is almost solely from Australia or Indonesia.

More likely to see end of Sake. Don't even consider drinking any sake of a recent vintage. This I just heard from a well-versed restauranteur. He also suggests not drinking Japanese beer.

We're all still eating shrimp out of the Gulf of Mexico and beef after mad cow was discovered in the US. I doubt our eating habits will change at all.

There is a decent amount of pretty good domestic (US) Sake. It doesn't compete on the high end, but it's not awful.

i already stocked up with some japanese sake at a recent local sake fest in hk (started @ 12/mar) so noway its contaminated.... also i got some sapporo bear :o i hope they'll last

How much sapporo BEAR can you stock up on your fridge? Make sure they were humanely slaughtered. :D

yeah I think most of the typical Salmon, Tuna sushi isn't from Japan

I frequent a sushi restaurant here in Denver.. yeah, I know that doesn't sound like a good idea. But the proprietors have family in Japan that overnights them fish shipments daily from the Tsukiji market in Tokyo. I'd be interested to see how (fi any) this has affected their buying habits.

swordfishs too. and sea urchin can be found at different placess

I hope not... as soon as its safe I say folks should eat more to support Japan in its rebuilding efforts... ^

Isn't mercury a much bigger problem when it comes to sushi?