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Tuna on sale at Tokyo's Tsukiji market, the biggest fish and seafood wholesaler in the world. Japan consumes some 80% of the 60,000 tons of bluefin caught on average worldwide each year

Tuna: The Hidden Cost of the World's Priciest Fish

By Krista Mahr / General Santos City

The worldwide appetite for tuna is getting out of control, threatening the survival of one of the oceans' most magnificent creatures

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Tuna populations around the world are being fished more aggressively. Even General Santos, the so-called Tuna Capital of the Philippines, sashimi export and canneries have been hit by a downturn in the number of fish coming to port.

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