sealord > Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo, Japan >  Tsukiji boxes of yellowtail 1290 2 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.
File No. 1288 29
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sealord > A coho or silver salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, photographed in March 1989.  This is a farmed rasied fish that was sold at Fulton Fish Market in New York City.
File No.  0389 2
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sealord > Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo, Japan >  farmed ormer Haliotis tuberculata Rocquaine Bay 35-275 smg
sealord > This Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser sturio, was farm raised in France and purchased in St. Helier, Jersey on 9 July 1997.  It weighed 2.595 kilograms whole.
Only three Atlantic sturgeons have been recorded in Guernsey waters since the end of World War 2.  One of them was captured on 30 September 30, 1986.  It weighed 74 lbs. 8 oz. and was caught in a trawl off the south coast of Guernsey.
File No. 29-47
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sealord > Farm raised channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, from South Carolina, USA.
Photographed February 1990
File No. 0290 22
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sealord > A farm raised arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus, imported from Iceland and sold at Fulton Fish Market in New York City in October 1991.
File No. 1091 3 
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sealord > top left: red spot king prawn - Melicertus longistylus
top middle: spot prawn - Pandalus platyceros
top right: pink shrimp - Farafantepenaeus duorarum
2nd row left: smooth nylon shrimp - Heterocarpus laevigatus
2nd row middle: striped red shrimp - Aristeus varidens
2nd row right: banana shrimp - Fenneropenaeus merguiensis
3rd row left: white shrimp - Litopenaeus vannamei
3rd row left middle: royal red shrimp - Pleoticus robustus 
3rd row right middle: rock shrimp cooked - Sicyonia brevirostris
3rd row right: white shrimp - Litopenaeus setiferus
4th row left: freshwater prawn - Macrobrachium sp.
4th row middle: sidestriped shrimp cooked - Pandalopsis dispar
bottom row left: kuruma shrimp - Marsupenaeus japonicus
bottom row middle: northern shrimp - Pandalus borealis
bottom row right: giant tiger shrimp - Penaeus monodon
Tsukiji boxes of yellowtail 1290 2 smg
Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo, Japan >  Tsukiji boxes of yellowtail 1290 2 smg
Tsukiji boxes of yellowtail 1290 2 smg
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