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Japanese sushi maestro Jiro Ono, whose creations were recently enjoyed by US President Barack Obama and are reputedly the best in the world, warned Tuesday, November 4, of a sea change in ingredients due to overfishing. “I can’t imagine at all that sushi in the future will be made of the same materials we use today,” the 89-year-old master told the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan. Ono owns the three Michelin-starred Sukiyabashi Jiro restaurant, dubbed the world’s best sushi restaurant. He said it is now hard to find high-quality domestic tuna and shellfish. A global demand for tuna is leading the Japanese tuna industry to depend more and more on farmed fish and Atlantic bluefin varieties. Ono, together with his eldest son, has run the small sushi restaurant in the Ginza district since 1965.
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