It is Sunday and I usually make dinner for the family….and that occurrence brought this post to mind…….First, not a sushi fan…..to me it is bait not a meal.

A little background….I have a friends that works on a tuna boat out of Booth Bay, Maine and he had always told me about the agents for Japanese companies that were waiting for them at the docks and that they would buy the tuna before it was even off load from the ship…..and the money that they were willing to pay for a single tuna……

And all that lead me post this piece…..from the Week magazine…….

012, at 10:44 AM

A chef holds the head of a bluefin tuna that sold to a sushi chain restauranteur who will likely lose about $600,000 on the purchase. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Call it sushi philanthropy: At 2012’s inaugural tuna auction in Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji market, Japanese sushi magnate Kiyoshi Kimura paid an “eye-popping” $736,000 for a giant bluefish tuna — then sold it to his disaster-ravaged compatriots at a steep loss. “It is not just about the money,” said Hiroshi Umehara, a spokesman for Kimura’s Sushi-Zanmai restaurant chain. “It is also about the Japanese spirit.” After a year of earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns, and economic contraction, “Japan needs to hang in there,” Kimura added. Here’s a look at this very expensive, patriotic “boost of umami morale,”

Not much more I could say….other than…..eeeeeeeeeewwwwwww!  Sorry if you like sushi…it still is bait on a plate.