08 April 2019 (07:16 UTC-07 Tango 06) 19 Farvardin 1398/02 Sha’ban 1440/04 Wu-Chen 4717
There’s a type of fish that is expensive, because it’s in high demand by connoisseur–ed sushi lovers and because it quickly goes ‘bad’ once harvested: Amberjack (aka Yellowtail).
Japanese Yellowtail (aka Buri)
In Japan it’s called Buri (typically pronounced with a -D- sound making it sound like boo-dy), only two days after harvest the meat begins to lose color, turning grey. Back in January, Japanese news reports said a fish farm on the west side of the island of Shikoku began feeding the fish chocolate right before harvest. The result was that the meat kept its color five days after harvest.
Chocolate infused fish food pellets, looking like chocolate chip cookie dough, yummy
Now the man who is credited with the idea, Kiwada Kenichi of the Uwajima Project, is in California trying to pawn his chocolate fed fish to local sushi joints. Eaters in Los Angeles were asked to be guinea pigs and taste the meat, which traveled all the way from Japan. According to an NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) report everybody loved it.
Chocolate keeps the meat fresh because chocolate is an antioxidant. According to Wikipedia “Oxidation is a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals, thereby leading to chain reactions that may damage the cells of organisms.” Feeding the fish chocolate before they die keeps the meat fresh for up to three days longer than if they didn’t eat chocolate.
California Yellowtail (Amberjack)
Amberjack species are found from California to Japan. The fish is so in demand that in 2014 a Yellowtail farm was started off the coast of San Diego. In 2018 it was reported that Hawaii was experiencing an “abundance” of Yellowtail catches. Bottom line is that the fish is worth big money, Kiwada Kenichi estimates his chocolate fed Buri will bring in $18-million USD per Gregorian year by 2021.
Hawaii Yellowtail (aka Hawaiian Hiramasa)
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U.S. military took part in the Great Tohoku Earthquake remembrance, 11MAR2019.
Local emergency responders practice casualty evacuation during Pacific Partnership-19, 16MAR2019.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District conducted an earthquake continuity of operations training by simulating an emergency move of their Los Angeles HQ to Pheonix, Arizona. Think about that, the Army Corps of Engineers is prepping for a southern California quake so big that they’ll have to move their HQ out of California! According to the military report, preps for such a scenario began in 2018, as part of a Presidential Directive, Public Law and Corps regulations.
04MAR2019, fast transport ship USNS Brunswick (T-EPF 6) departs Naval Base Guam for Pacific Partnership 2019, the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.
U.S. military/USAID Humanitarian Assistance Response Training conducted 06MAR2019, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
On 09MAR2019, more than 120 state militia personnel (National Guard) took part in FEMA Region 9 mass-casualty training: “Det. 1 Hawaii is poised in the middle of the pacific, where we train to respond quickly with a team made up of professional responders. Some of our Airmen are already in the local fire department, police and EMS departments. It makes it easy to just sync right in. So there’s a credibility that we worry less about catching up to the civilian standards, because we come trained, equipped and interoperable with our civilian response partners. We have a small, close knit community in Hawaii, but at the same time, it’s also like we’re one big, extended family always find ways to provide kokua.”-Lieutenant Colonel James Faumuina, 154th Medical Group’s Detachment 1
Idaho Air National Guard, along with local responders, trained for mountain disaster/rescue ops 08MAR2019.
From 07-13MAR2019, the Idaho Army National Guard conducted Idaho Response-19 at Orchard Combat Training Center (aka Orchard Training Area). More than 350 Guard personnel from Idaho, Washington, Montana and Utah took part. Apparently the chemical weapons suits were part of an earthquake simulation in which the earthquake caused an argon gas leak.
Washington National Guard’s 10th Homeland Response Force took part in Idaho Response-19, despite the ‘bad’ weather: “It’s actually good training…because the weather will almost certainly not be ideal if we were called to a real world disaster.”-Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Bugbee
Somewhere in the East China Sea, U.S. Navy and Marines personnel conducted Nightingale, a mass casualty exercise aboard USS Wasp (LHD 1), 04FEB2019.
U.S. Marines and Sailors trained with Japanese forces on Okinawa, for Humanitarian Assistance-Disaster Relief, 01FEB2019.
At ‘Sector San Diego’ U.S. Coast Guard cutter Haddock conducted mass casualty training, 06FEB2019.
U.S. personnel board a Japanese Air Force C-130H at Andersen Air Force Base, in preparation to resume the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief portion of COPE North, 25FEB2019.
U.S. Army personnel tested water purification systems, and electrical power generators, at Soto Cano Air Base, 17JAN2019, in preparation for a natural disaster.
National Guard units from four states took part in disaster response training in San Francisco, during the last week of January, which included responding to ‘chemical incidents’.
