Tokyo chef serves tuna sushi

Tokyo chef serves tuna sushi

TOKYO, Japan - A chef at a sushi bar near Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market holds up a dish of hand-rolled tuna sushi on March 19, 2010. A proposal to ban international trade in bluefin tuna from the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea had been voted down at a U.N. conference in Doha. Japan was relieved by the vote as it is the biggest consumer of the tuna.

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