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and often sold as cat food
until some people realised that

if they airlifted them to Japan,
if they sent them to Japan in aeroplanes

the price would go from a few cents
to many dollars per pound

Tsukiji market in Tokyo is the
biggest fish market in the world

Before l came to Japan
l'd heard a lot about it

but l just wasn't prepared
for the scale of it

This warehouse is just
the frozen section,

in another section there are
rows and rows of fresh tuna

and amongst these are a
frightening quantity of blue fin

The Japanese are by far the biggest
importers of tuna in the world

This is big business, these blue fin
are fetching sixty pounds a kilo

so at today's auction
a dealer would expect

to get twelve thousand pounds
for this one fish alone

But the market fluctuates madly
and there have been blue fin here

that have fetched a staggering
fifty thousand pounds

Tuna fishermen don't except the
blue fin numbers are right down,

but most scientists firmly
believe that they are

Many people want blue fin tuna
listed as ClTES appendix one,

in other words a total ban on
all fishing of them

unless this is done there is
no way the fishermen,

the wholesalers, everybody
involved with the market

will give up there's simply
too much in it for them

This market isn't
just about tuna,

There's every conceivable
type of fish here

Nearly fifty percent of the food
eaten in Japan comes from the sea

compared with the worlds average
of about fifteen percent

They eat enormous quantities
of fish, every species imaginable,

but unfortunately some of those
species are in deep trouble

This is a sword fish
in the Atlantic

its numbers have almost
halved since the 1 960's

As a result many restaurants
have taken it off the menu

Marlin are a favourite
amongst game fishermen

...and some species
are down by 90%%%

While shark meat is on sale
in many Japanese markets

by far the biggest trade is in shark
fins and that trade is Asia wide

About one hundred million sharks
are caught every year

Admittedly this is the biggest
market but there are hundreds of markets

all over the world selling
huge quantities of fish

and it's not just one day a week
it's day after day after day

You might find some
really strange creatures here,

ones that are totally unfamiliar
to us but that's not the issue,

it's often the more common species
that are seriously threatened...

...and those you can
find on sale at home

This is billingsgate market
the largest fish market in London

Here you can buy all the familiar
fish which we love to eat,

but in the UK every day
we're eating fish

from stocks that are
dangerously low

Most of us have no idea
that these fish are in trouble

Even the most common
ones such as cod

At the moment the, the worst problem
is with cod in the lrish sea

which is really in a very,
very depressed state err indeed

The north east Arctic stock off the
coast of Norway is not in very good shape

The Canadian stock is not in good shape,
the north sea is not in good shape

About the only one that's doing reasonably
well at the moment is, is lceland...

...and if that one goes the same way
there will be no Atlantic cod

There simply will not
be any cod for sale

So is this a, a normal
size of cod these days

That's about an average
size now, yes

When you go and buy fish in
supermarkets or in fish and chip shops,

You generally as a consumer
have no way to tell

whether this has come from a stock
that is over fished or stock that isn't

and where are these ones from?

There from Aberdeen

From the north sea?

Yeah that's right.

We know that fish stocks do collapse
err and sometimes they do recover,

the herring collapsed and recovered,

there was a stock of mackerel
in the north sea

in the 60's and 70's that err collapsed
under very heavy fishing pressure


知识点

重点词汇
frightening [ˈfraɪtnɪŋ] adj. 令人恐惧的；引起突然惊恐的 {toefl :5047}

Tokyo ['tәukjәu] n. 东京（日本首都） {gk :5474}

unfamiliar [ˌʌnfəˈmɪliə(r)] adj. 不熟悉的；不常见的；没有经验的 { :5911}

tuna [ˈtju:nə] n. 金枪鱼，鲔鱼 n. (Tuna)人名；(葡、匈、捷、土、塞)图纳 {cet6 :5993}

arctic ['ɑ:ktɪk] n. 北极圈；御寒防水套鞋 n. (Arctic)人名；(英)阿克蒂克 adj. 北极的；极寒的 {gk cet6 toefl ielts gre :6116}

aeroplanes [ˈɛərəpleinz] n. 飞机( aeroplane的名词复数 ) { :6392}

admittedly [ədˈmɪtɪdli] adv. 公认地；无可否认地；明白地 {toefl :6846}

staggering [ˈstægərɪŋ] adj. 惊人的，令人震惊的 {ky toefl :7013}

halved [hævd] v. 对半分开；均分；把…减半（halve的过去式和过去分词） { :7024}

dangerously ['deɪndʒərəslɪ] adv. 危险地；不安全 { :7676}

fins [finz] n. 鳍片，散热翅片；五元纸币（fin的复数形式） v. 切除鳍；装上翅（fin的第三人称单数） n. (Fins)人名；(葡)芬斯 { :8226}

fin [fɪn] n. 鳍；鱼翅；鳍状物 vt. 切除鳍；装上翅 vi. 猛挥鳍；潜泳 n. (Fin)人名；(法)芬 { :8226}

conceivable [kənˈsi:vəbl] adj. 可能的；想得到的，可想像的 { :9614}

cod [kɒd] abbr. 货到付款（cash on delivery）；货到收款（collect on delivery）；化学需氧量（chemical oxygen demand） { :9869}

herring [ˈherɪŋ] n. 鲱 n. (Herring)人名；(英)赫林 { :9934}

importers [ɪmˈpɔ:təz] n. 进口商（importer的复数形式） { :10039}

cents [sents] 分 { :10111}

imaginable [ɪˈmædʒɪnəbl] adj. 可能的；可想像的 { :11264}

kilo [ 'kiːləʊ] n. 千克 n. (Kilo)人名；(阿拉伯)基洛 {zk gk ky :11522}

fluctuates [ˈflʌktjueits] vi. 波动；涨落；动摇 vt. 使波动；使动摇 { :11623}

wholesalers [ˈhəʊlˌseɪləz] n. [贸易] 批发商（wholesaler的复数形式） { :11963}


难点词汇
err [ɜ:(r)] vi. 犯错；做错；犯罪；走上歧途 {toefl gre :13165}

madly [ˈmædli] adv. 疯狂地；发狂地；精神失常地 { :13638}

mackerel [ˈmækrəl] n. 鲭（产于北大西洋）；马鲛鱼 { :15554}

marlin [ˈmɑ:lɪn] n. 枪鱼，青枪鱼；四鳃旗鱼 { :17367}

airlifted [ˈeəˌlɪftid] v. 空运( airlift的过去式和过去分词 ) { :19353}

billingsgate [ˈbiliŋsɡit] n. 粗俗（或下流）的骂人语 { :36971}


生僻词
tsukiji [ ] [网络] 筑地；筑地市场；东京筑地


词组
a sword [ ] [网络] 一把剑；一把剑战斗；一只剑

Atlantic cod [ ] 大西洋鳕鱼

shark fin [ ] [网络] 鱼翅；鲨鱼鳍；鲨鱼鳍形

shark fins [ ] [网络] 鱼翅；鱼翅类；鲨鱼鱼翅

shark meat [ ] 鲨鱼肉

sword fish ['sɔːdfɪʃ] n. 箭鱼

the atlantic [ðə ætˈlæntɪk] [网络] 大西洋月刊；大西洋杂志；美国大西洋月刊



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