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Often described as the greatest wholesale fish market in the world. Tsukiji Fish Market in downtown Tokyo sells a breathtaking variety of fish & shellfish. Tsukiji sells live fish and shellfish as well as the best possible quality of fresh and frozen seafood. Even though the Tsukiji fish market building dates from the 1930s the market is cleaned so thoroughly everyday that there is no fishy odour (TMA) at all. One can happily visit for many hours, spend the rest of the day in the same clothes, and no one will be aware of where you have been from the smell of your clothes or your shoes. The freshness and packaging of the seafood on display provides a valuable lesson for everyone in the global seafood industry.
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sealord > Tiger pufferfish, Takifugu xanthopterus, on display at Tsukiji wholesale fish market in Tokyo.
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sealord > A box of layered Psenopsis anomala on display at Tsukiji central wholesale fish market in Tokyo, Japan
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sealord > Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo, Japan >  Tsukiji salted salmon for New Year sale 1288 29 smg
sealord > Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo, Japan >  Tsukiji oxygen tanks for live fish auction 1288 24 smg
sealord > Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo, Japan >  Tsukiji traffic congestion 1288 36 smg
sealord > A display of kazunoko or salted herring roe at an intermediate wholesaler's stand in the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, Japan.  Kazunoko is a traditional New Year festival food and a traditional gift.  

The Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii, lays its eggs in sheets on kelp (konbu).  The kelp with eggs attached is cut and pickled and sold as kazunoko-konbu, which is particularly delicious.  Some chefs refer to Kazunoko as "yellow diamonds" because of its high price.  Photographed in December 1988.
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sealord > Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo, Japan >  Tsukiji hamadai Etelis coruscans 1290 29 smg
sealord > Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo, Japan >  Tsukiji fish auction area 1290 36 smg
sealord > This image shows a box of maboya, Halocynthia roretzi, at one of the intermediate wholesaler stands at the Tsukiji Metropolitan Fish Market in Tokyo, Japan.  These are ascidians (generic Japanese name: hoya) .  They are in the taxonomic class ascidiacea.  This name comes from the Greek 'asci' which means bag or bladder.  They are also known as tunicates because their body is encased in a tunic or a test.    As swimming larvae these animals possess a notochord but this is lost when they settle on a substrate.  These ascidians are cultivated in Korea and Japan where they are prized as food.  Another ascidian species is eaten in the South of France and I have also seen ascidians for sale in restaurants in Brussels.  Author Alan Davidson who wrote "Mediterranean Seafood" states that the Mediterranean species that he ate "tasted quite good" and looked "like scrambled eggs".   He cut open the tunic or test to eat the "yellow part" inside the animal.  I have never knowingly eaten them myself.   Photographed in December 1988.
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Tiger pufferfish, Takifugu xanthopterus, on display at Tsukiji wholesale fish market in Tokyo.
File No. 1-547
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 > Tiger pufferfish, Takifugu xanthopterus, on display at Tsukiji wholesale fish market in Tokyo.
File No. 1-547
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
Tiger pufferfish, Takifugu xanthopterus, on display at Tsukiji wholesale fish market in Tokyo.
File No. 1-547
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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