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Gloucester fisherman upholds local tradition
By adamg on Fri, 08/28/2015 - 11:11am
Seems that up in Gloucester, the tradition is that you have to eat the heart of the first tuna you catch. Here's photographic proof.
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Wonder what that tuna went for?
New Deal in Cambridge retails sushi grade tuna at about $20-plus per lb.
Figure 40% waste (bones, offal, skin) and you get about 450 pounds of tuna. At that weight that about $9K retail worth of fish. I think I could manage a bite or two of tuna heart for that.
Maybe more
Fish skeletons don't need to fight gravity all day long like we do here on land, so they're probably a significantly lower fraction of total body mass.
"about 40% of the total fish
"about 40% of the total fish weight can be used as high quality meat."
http://www.naturemath.com/really-big-tuna/
"Tuna (headless bullets) yields 75% untrimmed loins"
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uWgFE0WcMWQJ:seafoo...
Ahi (Yellowfin Tuna) Butchering Yield Percentage and Recovery
Steaks - 50%, Sashimi 35%
Albacore Tuna Butchering Yield Percentage and Recovery
39%
http://www.chefs-resources.com/Tuna-Varieties
Poor beautiful fishy =(
Poor beautiful fishy =(
Sad..
..to see them smiling next to that beautiful fish.
I take it you guys don't eat
I take it you guys don't eat seafood then.
Not fish which are being over
Not fish which are being over-fished into extinction.
Overfished?
Ever hear of bluefish, or monkfish? Mackerel?
Cod?
Any restaurant offering "local cod" is probably not a restaurant you want to give your business to, Icelandic cod is the way to go these days. Local has been obliterated.
Buy local
Plenty of places (New Deal, Court House, Farmers Markets CSAs) where you can ask the guy behind the counter where the fish came from and get a straight answer. There;s still lots of local, seasonal fish that you can find in your neighborhood f you take the time to get to know the guy who's selling it.
Places like Whole Paycheck, all bets are off.
Whole Foods is sloppy
I can't get fish from there - I'm allergic to some types and they just slop it all over in sloppy stacks. No thanks. I'm much happier with the local fishmongers.
There is a CSA for seafood out of Gloucester - I don't have the details.
Heartless
bastard..
considering the collapse of the tuna fisheries...
..someday this may be a quaint remembrance.
as will cans o' tuna.
Did someone
Did some call Mrs Paul and invite her?
How about the Gorton's Fishermen?
What a magnificant creature
Let's hope it's not a bluefin tuna. They're seriously overfished.