Saturday, March 22, 2014

Landlocked Kingdom Of Lesotho Pulls Off Sushi Export To Japan

The idea of Japanese consumers eating sushi exported from a tiny African country with no coastline may sound improbable, but the kingdom of Lesotho is pulling it off. Hatched in the boardroom of South African bullion producer Gold Fields, a project called Highlands Trout is now exporting 2,000 tonnes of rainbow trout a year, mainly to Japanese supermarket chain CGC.

It is even by-passing Tsukiji, Tokyo's massive wholesale fish market, usually the first destination for fish imported

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