Humping The Hump, Santa Monica's Whale-Serving Sushi Bar; Jonathan Gold Connection in the Fracas

• I agree totally that it is an outrage to sell an endangered animal, where is the moral in the commercial side of things. Laws should be more restricted about that.

• BEP are the very best! I adore them a whole lot. Let us party with their music! Boom boom pow!

• Your name should be "Narcissist" instead of "Rational Person."

• yeahhhhh... shut up you whiners. Cares about fish. I bet you cared about Darfur while it was in the news too. Bet you forgot the details of that outrage now that there's a new jump-onboard liberal headline... grow up. be individuals. think for yourselves. worry about real probems.

• While it�s easy to comment with blame for restauranteurs and fish buyers, we consumers also have compelling influence. I no longer buy toro, or other bluefin tuna offerings, when ordering sushi or buying fish. In fact, it�s possible for individuals to choose to buy sushi and fish only from species that are sustainably acquired. The Monterey Bay Aquarium website is a resource I value; the Seafood Watch section provides a Pocket Guide, by region and updated when required, to make it easy for me to choose sustainable sushi and fish.

• Looks like not only the Japanese disagree with you Kerstin. The U.N. just agreed not to ban Bluefin Tuna trade by a vote of 68-20.

• I remember seeing bluefin caught off the coast of Maine being bid for right on the dock by Japanese buyers, who then sent it back to Japan, where it would be portioned, and then sent back to the United States to be served in sushi bars. It's like we couldn't do it for ourselves.

• It's sad that something horrendous like this makes people like M. Mahoney want to go there. I'm not sure what kind of fair and balanced reporting he's looking for concerning illegal activity. And by the way, Bluefin Tuna are being considered for Appendix 1 of CITES which would ban all imports for food. This proposal is unfortunately being attacked by Japan who imports 80% of the Bluefin Tuna trade. The population of this fish has been reduced by over 70%. Noone should eat it-legal or not!

• Great point about Bluefin; it is served at a ton of places. And because it hasn't hit the endangered species list yet doesn't mean it isn't in massive decline thanks to the profit hungry commercial and national fleets that hunt it, and the general public that doesn't get engaged enough to understand the impacts of overfishing. As for the comparison of the Nile River to the Santa Monica Bay -- where did that come from? The article below pretty much paints how much more polluted the Nile is: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/901bb61f51f7382403d357cd5dd50baf.htm

• I had it last night there, oh yeah by the way you bunch of left wing california freaks, bluefin tuna is still perfectly legal to serve. Good luck healing that bay, the nile river is cleaner than santa monica bay. By the way nice style of reporting. Not exactly what I would call fair and balanced.

• Believe me, gayle, this is the least of the attrocities committed against sea life. I can guarantee that the restaurant is still serving bluefin tuna, and not a peep out of anyone about it.

• This is despicable outrage against the innocent ocean life that shares this planet with us. How could this have happened in the United States? This is our government's legislation, right? Does it display the inability of human awareness, our government's lack of interest in stopping such atrocities or both? There needs to be not only more strict legislation, there has to be severe consequences to those who so wontonly violate the law. Not limited to fines, but business closure and prison... Food for thought.

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