On: On Sushi and Tsukiji

[misterbwong]

I think you're right. It seems the cited 115 tons/year is a mistake that is currently flowing around the internet.

http://www.worldhum.com/travel-blog/item/inside_great_sushi_...

http://www.chow.com/media/2007/6?page=7

This paper has the Fulton Fish Market moving approx. 115,000 tons per year, based on an NYT article from 2005. This puts the FFM near a much more respectable ~300 tons/day.

http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/Research/wp/pdf/paper254.pdf