Fishmonger lies next to rare 7ft bluefin tuna – which was too big for the counter
A FISHMONGER lies next to a rare 7ft bluefin tuna which was too big for the counter. The farmed fish, which is an endangered species, weighed a whopping 150kg. It needed four guys to haul the “crème de la crème” creature on to a fish market’s window display. And it had to be laid on […]
A FISHMONGER lies next to a rare 7ft bluefin tuna which was too big for the counter.
The farmed fish, which is an endangered species, weighed a whopping 150kg.
It needed four guys to haul the “crème de la crème” creature on to a fish market’s window display.
And it had to be laid on the floor so 5ft 5in filleter William Elliot, 48, could chop it up.
It could have filled more than 1,000 tins of tuna — but was instead sold to a posh sushi restaurant for “thousands”.
The bluefin was filleted over two hours yesterday at Eddie’s Seafood Market in Edinburgh, after it arrived from Barcelona on Tuesday.
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Owner Campbell Mickel, 51, revealed he was so excited at its imminent arrival he could not sleep.
He said: “We had to really wrestle with it. You can’t get your arms around it at all and it’s so slippery.
“Bluefin tuna are highly endangered so we wouldn’t normally advocate eating it.
“But this one was caught when it was young and farmed until it was mature in a pen, so it’s classed as farmed as opposed to wild.”
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Campbell was asked by a sushi restaurant owner to source the bluefin — and it took him nearly three months.
The tuna, farmed in the Med off the coast of Spain, will now be super-frozen at -60C to protect its quality.
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Campbell added: “For a sushi restaurant, this fish is as good as it gets — it’s the crème de la crème.
“It’s their lobster, caviar and champagne all in one meal.”
