In How Sushi Went Global, Bestor observes that Tsukiji, Tokyo's wholesale seafood market,
a. auctions off only Japanese-caught bluefin tuna.
b. handles just 13 percent of the tonnage that New York City's Fulton Fish Market sells each year.
c. is sent daily information about tuna conditions in such fishing grounds as Montauk, Cape Cod, and Cartagena by fishermen in return for information about prices.
d. is one of three bluefin tuna auctions; the other two are in Madrid, Spain and Boston, Massachusetts.
Question 2
In How Sushi Went Global, why does Bestor refer to bluefin tuna as stateless fish?
a. Bluefin tuna swim so fast and migrate so far, they may not remain in any nation's waters for long.
b. ICCAT (the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas), made up of 28 countries, has declared that the fish should receive stateless legal status.
c. No one country has been willing to take responsibility for conserving bluefin tuna.
d. Bluefin tuna form part of sushi in every country of the world.
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