US bluefin tuna industry
Encyclopedia
The United States bluefin tuna industry was a major part of the nation's economy during the late 1980s until the early 1990s when its biggest customer, Japan
, experienced a failure in economy. The Japanese imported the bluefin tuna for their sushi business that boomed with the amount imported increasing from 531 metric tons in 1984 to 857 metric tons from the US in the year 1993. The price of the bluefin tuna was $34 per kilogram average for wholesale prices. The US bluefin tuna industry was able to recover from the economic damage by the help of Americans' new taste for sushi
.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, experienced a failure in economy. The Japanese imported the bluefin tuna for their sushi business that boomed with the amount imported increasing from 531 metric tons in 1984 to 857 metric tons from the US in the year 1993. The price of the bluefin tuna was $34 per kilogram average for wholesale prices. The US bluefin tuna industry was able to recover from the economic damage by the help of Americans' new taste for sushi
Sushi
is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice combined with other ingredients . Neta and forms of sushi presentation vary, but the ingredient which all sushi have in common is shari...
.