~misfit~ <sore_n_happy@yahoo-nospam.com.au> wrote:

>Somewhere on teh intarwebs Steve Pope wrote:

>> ~misfit~ <sore_n_happy@yahoo-nospam.com.au> wrote:

>>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Steve Pope wrote:

>>>> (Tangentially: in Hawaii, they sell:
>>>> normal-grade Ahi,

>>> Longline caught (usually), pulled aboad dead on the hook, put into
>>> ice slurry when landed.

>>>> sushi-grade Ahi

>>> Landed on the boat alive, bled out and put into an ice slurry within
>>> minutes.

>> Got a cite for this distinction?

>Friends who work tuna boats and know tuna that's worth heading into port
>with, rushing to the airport to send to Japan?

Thanks.

I truly have had (in Hawaii) non-sushi-grade ahi and ono that seemed every
bit as good as any sushi grade. But, landed that morning in most
cases.

Steve