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tuna.com gets almost double money per pound for they're 575lb tuna


WOW HOW COME tuna.com got $29 a pound for a 575 lb tuna (best fish of the year) but the bounty hunter only got $15 a pound and odyssea got $17 a pound both for 500lb fish? especially as the buyers said that both of the fish were great quality,

its only 8 o'clock and your already bored,you don't know what it is but theres gotta be more

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From what I gather, each tuna is graded when it arrives to port. Tuna.com caught
a much higher quality tuna, and thus was paid more.

Not all Tuna's are the same.

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How come Japanese are paying $1.76m US for the same tuna and these guys are seeing ess than $30 a pound (a tenth).

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its even less than a tenth at that rate its more like 0.5%, but for sure someone is making an awful lot of money whether it be the exporter or the importer, but it seems like a good business opportunity ie pay the fisherman more (get everyone selling to you) then cut out the middle man by exporting directly to japan and sell direct at the auctions, mind you you'll probably need $250,000 start up.

its only 8 o'clock and your already bored,you dont know what it is but there's gotta be more

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