Tuna fish as the mainstay of Indonesia

Indonesia is a country that has many islands sea area certainly have a wider range than the land area of Indonesia. Indonesia's natural resources are certainly more that comes from the sea. The resources of the sea one is Tuna.

As explained in wikipedia Indonesia, Tuna is a marine fish that is composed of several species of the family Scombridae, mostly the genus Thunnus. This fish is a powerful swimmer (never measured reached 77 km/h). Unlike most fish have white meat tuna, pork pink to dark red. This is because the muscles of tuna contains more myoglobin than other fish. Some of the larger tuna species, such as bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), can raise the temperature of blood, above the water temperature with muscle activity. This led to them can live in colder water and can survive in a variety of conditions. Most large-bodied, tuna fish that has a high commercial value.

Tuna is a commercial fish, fisheries catch an important commodity. The NGO International Seafood Sustainability Foundation has compiled a detailed report about the world tuna stocks in 2009, which is revised on a regular basis. According to the report, "These kinds of tuna paramount to capture fisheries and sport fishing is big eye tuna, yellowfin, tuna-bluefin and albacore, tatihu, and skipjack tuna. Between the 1940s and the mid-1960s, the world fisheries catches against the five most important tuna species has increased from approximately 300 thousand tons per year to around a million, most of them with a fishing line.

With the development of technologies to capture tool trawl ring (purse-seine), in recent years catches have surged to more than 4 million tonnes per year. About 68 per cent of that number coming from the Pacific Ocean, 22 percent of the Indian Ocean, and the remaining 10 per cent is divided between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Skipjack catches up to 60%, followed by the yellowfin (24%), large eyes (10%) and albacore (5%). Approximately 62% of world production is captured by using the trawl ring, amounting to 14% by using fishing line rawai tuna (longline), 11% with fishing line huhate (pole and line), the rest with others. In 2006 Australia Government alleged that Japan had been harvesting of tuna in excess (the situation) and illegal, to capture the 12-20 thousand tons per year, well above the agreed quota of 6 thousand tons per year. The value of the excess catch it dates to reach 2 billion dollars (u.s.). Advantages of the arrest is alleged to have destructive bluefin stock.

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The best quality Tuna Indonesia, this statement was delivered by Daisie Chef from the restaurant Kappodan in the Blok M Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta, West, an outspoken demonstrate slice tuna in Japan show 2011 at the Hotel Nikko Maitsuri, Sudirman, Central Jakarta at Friday (18/9/2011). The use of longer, Indonesia has the quality of tuna fish with meats are best.

 "Meat of tuna fish have soft, Indonesia's famous tuna fish differs from that we get from other countries," he said.

Chef Daisie back reveals, "meat of tuna that's in addition to the soft texture of the tuna fish, Indonesia is also sweet and not easily eneg. Taste fishy from the fish very soft. "
(source: http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna#Jenis-jenis_tuna)