Der rote Thunfisch

Isn’t it shocking that a search for tuna pictures either at google’s or even foto sites as flickr leads to more than 90% to sushi and other dishes? Is that all we like about these wonderful creatures? Imagine human meat in this place, quite shocking, but remember already Jonathan Swift , head of Andre Breton's seminal Anthologie de l'Humour Noir, in "A Modest Proposal" suggested to permit eating of children to provide some value to the not welcome large number of irish kids. For various reasons Thunnos thynnos is now close to extinction. Die Fangquote seems too high, and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, commission international pour la conservation des thonides de l’atlantique, is currently meeting à Paris.  Read http://oceans.greenpeace.fr/greenpeace-revele-un-nouveau-scandale-sur-le-thon-rouge . The video of the recent Aktion:  Un militant de Greenpeace s'est fait harponner à la jambe au large de Malte alors que lui et des membres de l'ONG tentaient de faire obstacle à des pêcheurs français (the French tuna-fishing boat Jean-Marie Christian VI ) de thon rouge may be seen  in the web, mais pas in Deutschland. Les japonais gourmets kaufen 4/5 der Fänge often still accomplished with forbidden Ringwadennetzen. If verboten ils sont expected to ignore la decision, comme avec les baleines. Currently a black Markt of more than 4 billion US$ exists.  Read the complex story by Paul Greenberg (http://www.globalanimal.org/2010/11/09/the-end-of-tuna/5718/).

Cutting the lino has been a great experience. 

Does a tuna have scales? Yes indeed, a crucial question pour kosher food. Comparing un thon avec a human, is it an individual, is it gezeichnet, travellng thousands of miles dans les oceans? We know that every whale can be identified by details of the body, but a tuna. Based on an image of a dead Thunnos thynnus from the RFDI , http://download.nfrdi.re.kr/ofiris/upload_file/ofiris/PW/mltim/master_img/001/Thunnus%20thynnus.jpg, the Korean National Fisheries Research & Development Institute I slightly stretched the Rücken- und Seitenflosse für die Impression eines schwimmenden bluefin. Silber and blue background is fait avec pochoir. A frame is set, like a Traueranzeige, naming the bluefin in different languages.