You need to redo your research on truffles. There is a company near where I live who has developped methods of cultivating truffles by combining the "mycelium" with oak "saplings" (don't know the exact terms)
The $3,000,000 tuna was because it was New Year. The extraordinary price was paid by a sushi bar chain during what is called hatsu seri, or literally, first auction, to wish a prosperous year. So, the jaw dropping bid was driven mostly by Japanese beliefs, rather than by supply and demand. If $3M was the regular price paid for each catch, tuna sushi would be EXTREMELY expensive 🙂 5 Jan 2021 update: the highest bid this year was for a meager $200K😞
@@spindash64 I agree in that it does have a high base price, particularly for the Pacific Bluefin from Oma. But we can all agree that $3M was WAY off the charts (about 250 times the current rate.) The bid was also a PR stunt by the sushi bar chain.
suplly and demand is still intanct. the reasons for the demand don't affect this. But of course it's a special case like you pointed out. whatever drives suplly and demmand causes it, rather than overruling it.
@@AlexTrusk91 A cynical view is that demand for attention (by the sushi bar) drove up the price :-) My opinion is that ”shūgi sōba” was the key factor here (shūgi = celebration; sōba=market price.)
Its either a PR stunt or the one making the purchase gets the money in a suspicious way. That's what is happening to so called Art exhibitions now. They make ridiculous prices and a dirty money suddenly is transformed into an abstract shenanigans which the seller most likely returns to the buyer as new fresh laundry. minus the commision of course
@@thedude2131 Don't think so. It was in uni, I was just a student working on the project. I'm not even sure what the title of the research was in the end, I only did field research. I can confirm though, tuna breeding doesn't work; they need too much space, the food input barely makes the tuna output worth it in the first place and the young all eat eachother; about 80% died of cannibalism...
Kiki University in Japan has closed the cycle on Bluefin Tuna. The issue is not whether it can be done but whether it is economically viable to do at commercial scale.
Surprising its as low as 40 There are quite a variety we can and do grow Button mushrooms Various species of oyster Shitake Lions mane Some morel species Enoki Beech mushroom Reishi (although thats not edible, only decorative or as traditional medicine) Others could be grown but arent because they aren't useful, or because they aren't transportable/storable (shaggy mane grows like weeds)
Because many of them are in a symbiotic or parasitic relationship with another fungi or plants. Either it is too expensive to raise the symbiotic plants or we haven't figured out which one that needs to be planted.
Don't take everything Sideshow says at its face value they spread misinformation routinely but it's in line with the mainstream propaganda notice how when you first starts talking about truffles he goes right to climate change meanwhile 10 minutes down the road from me is a truffle Farm because yes they can Farm it
@@kcvriess Eh, nice one! Just how strange that transition was, considering other popular sponsors. Also considering that Brilliant focuses on training people's problem-solving skills, and a lot of developing farming or sustainable food is about solving problems....
they make they best pie and jam you've ever had and due to overharvesting they've become really expensive. One pie is normally about $20-$30 for a "mixed berry" pie that's only half huckleberry and i've seen pure huckleberry pies between $30-$50 for a kind of small pie.
Farming truffles has been a thing for a surprising amount of time, now. You can buy Hazelnuts, and a couple other species of tree, already inoculated with the truffle. 3-5 years to harvest.
@@diggysoze2897 and now we are understanding what truffles and another fungus do to the plants around them that can be useful to protect and farm with less effort, pesticides and other resources!
In the Southern United States we have a fruit called the PawPaw. Its actually the largest native fruit found in the United States. But because it rots so fast during transport it can only be harvested in the wild.
"Well when you pick a pawpaw or a prickly pear, don't use a raw paw, next time beware. Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw, when you pick the pear you gotta use the claw" -Baloo
You gotta be kidding me. I had never heard of the paw paw fruit until today. Saw it on a youtube channel (Townsends) and said, "Hmm, I wonder what that is." And from what I read on it after watching Townsends video about it, it sounds like it is delicious. And now, same day, I see it in the comments section of this video. Ironic.
You were mostly right. Huckleberries and blueberries are all in the genus Vaccinium so are really closely related, and often very similar in appearance. I prefer the tart taste of huckleberries to the more gentle blueberry flavours, but my favourite is red huckleberries, which aside from the characteristic 'dimple' on the bottom are somewhat different in appearance from their cousins, the blueberries.
@@science75902 Yes, they really are called Vaccinium and yes, they really are healthy 😁. I admit, I had not thought about how much the word sounds like vaccines, which are also healthy😁 Thank you for the good chuckle. I needed one today 😂
As the manager of an aquaponic greenhouse i can tell you that “larvae of one species of [ANY FISH] are packed in tightly, they grow more slowly, and fewer survive”. It is quite literally the FIRST rule of livestock... the biggest issue for bluefin farming is that any farms would need to be open water farms that require vast tracts of ocean with graded nets forming concentric circles with the inner nets smallest and outer nets widest, allowing larvae and and prey fish to swim freely in and out and only preventing eacape of larger fish as they grow from feeding. The issue with this is that it requires a huge operation and typically in non-coastal waters or out in international waters. This provides both a massive risk to the operation as it leaves them Out of jurisdiction of most protectionist policies as well as leaves them without public funding
Kind of confused about the truffles not being farmable. As a truffle farmer, I happened to know they they can be farmed quite easily given a grid of mature trees.
What he didn't mention about huckleberries is that black bears love them passionately and you have a fair chance to encounter one or several while picking berries. Give them some room, they need the berries more than you do.
Oh, yeah, I’ll give a grizzly bear more huckleberries because he’s needy, forget about those claws and teeth and that he could probably run down Usain Bolt to eat him over those berries (although he would be a little bit stringy, compared to me :-).
Why is "fungus" pronounced with a hard G and "fungi" with a soft G? I've literally never heard it pronounced that way before and I'm not going to change even if that's correct.
Human civilization has tended to develop technology that separates us from our environment, rather than developing technology from the environment itself.
Whenever I visited Montana as a kid, I always looked forward to three things: Going-to-the-Sun Road, catch-and-cook Rainbow Trout, and Huckleberry syrup on pancakes.
@@AuntieDawnsKitchen I have considered morels, but my business is growing mostly oyster varieties and medicinal mushrooms, I just don't do well with not knowing
@@AuntieDawnsKitchen @Aaron Ramsden : For morels, try elm wood mulch, inoculate with morel spawn, wait ~5 years (maintaining moisture conditions & such, of course). Seems some of the bigger issues are the correct growth medium, and the _time_ required for the mycellium to properly set.
@@rsamom people don't need ice caps, but we need land. If the ice caps melted, then it would be a big problem for coastal cities. (you sounded serious don't woosh me)
@@mrchocolatebean8878 You also gain farmable land from where the ice was (floating ice does not rise sea level). Not arguing in favor of melting ice, but reasoning is more because of submerging coastal cities than because of losing land (I think)
There are several farms near me that grow huckleberry bushes commercially for both “pick your own” and commercial harvest. Yes, they take awhile to mature but growing them in their native habitat isn’t hard, it’s only when people want to grow them in other places they have problems.
About truffles: one of my older uncles here in Italy told me that when he was young (1950s), truffle was extremely common and found almost everywhere in the country-side. It was not considered fancy and when they found one, it was used to feed the pigs. Truffles started to disappear after the post-war industrialization, when machinery to work the fields and pesticides became more common.
Your uncle is very misinformed , truffles have been a delicacy for hundreds of year if not thousands and have been hunted to a point where the low supply due to over hunting paired with the same demand creates outrageous prices . Simple economics I don’t know what your uncle was smoking
I disagree. I worked in a fish market for a few years and have had many different fish. The lighter fish like cod and snapper often are very similar, but dark fish like tuna, Jack and salmon all have wide taste differences not just between species but also with different diets. And blue fin is pretty bomb. It's like ahi but less acidic and therefore softer on the palate.
Huckleberry, "Blåbär" in Swedish, is very common natively in pine forest here in Sweden. Daily picking them in the forest as we pass them to the preschool during summer/autumn, right now starting to get very few on the bushes with morning temperature nearing zero Celsius here in the early hours.
@@-CG It seems our blueberries, usually referred to as "European blueberries" or "Bilberries" are the species Vaccinium myrtillus, while the huckleberries refferd to in this episode are Vaccinium deliciosum. But it's quite confusing, as the everyday names such as "blueberry", "huckleberry", and "bilberry" all can refer to different species in the same genus or family. I cannot speak for Swedish, but in Norway we do have different names for our native species of blueberry.
@@-CG We used to have blueberry bushes in our garden. We always called them “Amerikanska blåbär” so American blueberries. The ones in the forest are just “blåbär” or blueberries. Sometimes they sell fresh blueberries at the grocery store and I’ve seen American blueberries there being marketed as just blueberries. I think the general notion here is that the American blueberries are just another type of blueberry and not a whole other berry like blueberries and huckleberries are in the US.
I never knew that huckleberries were hard to farm. They're extremely common where I live and I've eaten a lot of them over the years. I usually associate them with bears as they are a major food source for them
i mean the body is dead either way, why not use it for a good cause ? unless you have millions of $ to be frozen and then ( potentionally ) unfrozen at some point
They grow in the landscaped bits of parking lots in Corvallis Oregon. Took a while to properly identify them because they aren't native to that part of the world, but they're there now.
I remember one of truffle varient being taught to cultivate under trees... in my younger years by my grandfather. I think i take about 1 month before we can harvest them. They are less valuable varient but at least it is a start.
He never said it was impossible to grow truffles, just extremely difficult. Most of the growers here in Australia produce very little yeild, especially considering the investment they have put into their farms in the first place
@@Catzillator We share the exact same story! 😊 My grandfather is a mushroom expert (professional) in France and grew all sorts of mushrooms in his backyard and all. And once told me that he injected the parasite responsible for the growth of truffles into the oak of his garden and how I should look for truffles. And by the roots of the oak, under a little bush, I discovered a realllllllyy big truffle (from memory, it had to be handled with two adults hands) and few little ones around. I was more than happy and all the family around, appreciated them in dinner in all forms. (from saucisson (dried sausages), to chicken, to chocolate). But I don't know if it was a lesser variant. Just remember it was black truffle, not white.
Here in Spain we actually have truffle crops in some Mediterranean mountain locations -with a cooler climate than the coast. They're cultivated conjoined to juniper trees.
I remember the first time I heard the word berries I thought it was the most tasty thing in the world then I tried them and was not impressed they taste like a weak grape
I was going to comment the exact same thing. Every time he mispronounces 'fungi' as 'fun-Ji' it is extremely jarring. I can get when some folks pronounce the 'I' at the end as either a 'ai' or 'ee' (the latter sounds weird but not too wrong), pronouncing the 'G' as a 'J' sound is just so deeply wrong. I can't tell if it's just a weird accent that I'm yet to hear anyone else have or if it's just some weird quirk the guy has.
Generally speaking, the g in Ecclesiastical/Medieval Latin makes a softer sound when it precedes the vowels i and e. The letter c does the same thing, making a ch- sound instead of the Latin standard k-. G does the same thing in Italian and some dialects of French, if I'm not mistaken. Fungus is Latin, so it would have originally been pronounced "fungjee" for its nominative plural form that English just uses for all plural derivatives. Although Classical Latin would have kept the hard g instead, but Classical Latin was out of style before people even acknowledged that was the case.
Strawberries, while farmable, are also very difficult to farm due to their sensitivity to soil moisture and innumerable other factors it's almost always a loss for a farmer to reserve area for strawberry growing
every baby animal that isnt basically a miniature of an adult animal of the same species an be called a larva. this definition isnt really the best though, and its more like a I know it when I see it kind of thing, but all sorts of animals have larva.
I believe the correct term for baby fish is "fry." Larva implies a sort of fundamental transformation (shedding an exoskeleton, growing legs, sprouting wings, etc) that fish don't do. Yes, the proportions of the fry are different from the adult, but for the most part, they simply grow.
Ceps are a fungus that are also in high demand. Farmers have tried growing these in areas with large populations of oaks and birch trees. This is where they like to grow in a very similar way to truffles, except that they have a fruiting body that comes out of the ground as a mushroom. However all efforts to make ceps commercially viable have failed. All ceps that you get in restaurants and stores are all harvested in the wild. However, if managed correctly, the forests of Europe and North America produce an abundance of these fungi .
serpentarius I thought that’s what you were confused about no need to get so hostile. Also, some people pronounce the plural of fungus like he did in the video. Words are weird that way in the sense that people can pronunce it differently it doesn’t make one way right and one way wrong.
Now I understand the expression "I'll be your hucklberry" a bit better. I knew it meant having a unique and usefull skill set for a situation, but now I see why they chose hucklberry as it requires a unique and specific situation to thrive.
Loved this video, was very interesting to hear about the huckleberries. I live off grid on a small island off the coast of BC. We have a red huckleberry here, I am blessed with numerous wild plants on my property. We don't get much snow here as its right on the ocean, they grow very fast and are numerous, the older plants definitely yield the most. I made a first nation's style berry comb and harvested a good crop this year for my seasons worth of jam😋
Bluefin tuna ARE farmed though, it's just a small percentage of the overall harvest. They've been bred in captivity too, and these have been raised to eat. There is a low survival rate for these eggs, but with more research, this may increase It's started in Japan, but it may take off on the West Coast of the US too. asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/Fully-farmed-bluefin-tuna-ready-for-wider-sales-beyond-Japan www.aquaculturenorthamerica.com/tuna-farming-in-us-waters-moves-closer-to-reality-2283/ As for huckleberries, there's some success in research. This has lead to some clones that do well and produce in cultivation- www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/sep/21/wsu-researchers-taming-the-wild-huckleberry/ Also, truffles have been grown in cultivation for over a century in France. It's just the World Wars wiped out oak trees that were used to grow them, and production hasn't recovered since... They just haven't been able to get them to grow too well in North America for some reason. blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2008/04/08/so-you-want-to-be-a-truffle-farmer-part-2/ discovermagazine.com/2000/nov/featbiology
@empbac Well, it looks like, somehow, the economics aren't in favor of farming for lobsters. bangordailynews.com/2010/07/16/opinion/the-lobster-farming-fad/ There is this too though- modernfarmer.com/2014/12/maines-accidental-lobster-farmers/
So glad you mentioned the climate change concerning the truffles, 20years ago you couldn't find one in my region in Switzerland but it's getting more and more common
The main issue with tuna is that it is overfished. The more you breed, fishing quotas would get larger to adjust. The best thing would be to stop overfishing
@@hardrockrelics2157 If you outlaw commercial tuna fishing, then that would cause the black market for them to explode. Legal action can only go so far in curbing human desire.
There's a risk there of introducing new diseases from captive populations. Think transplanting a wild betta born and raised in a tank setting back into its native rice patty; they'd die in competition with wild born fish and introduce bacteria from your tank while they're at it. Breeding larvae and then releasing them could cause some of the same issues, plus with yield getting smaller each year as ocean predators realize where your dumping sites are. Dolphins already follow fishing trawlers waiting for carnage.
Also, I was stationed in Japan before the bluefin tuna became so critical and what Hank said is true, bluefin is the pinnacle of the sushi dining experience, in the hands of a skilled chef it was the best sushi I'd ever had!
Mulberries grow in a lot of places but they are tedious to pick because unlike other fruits the berries on the tree do not all ripen at the same time. So if you pick by hand you have to go out each day to get the latest berries to ripen.
He's actually a type of wild rice native to my hometown called St Mary's wild Rice. I'm not sure if the species is actually native around here but it grows in the shallow lake areas and swamps if you can call them that around here. it's almost like eating a pine needle but the glycemic rating is extremely low and it's great for you. It's also $7 a box lol
It's so fascinating to watch an informative RU-vid channel and just hearing a voice instead of funky background music. At first I was a bit confused, if something is odd about this channel, then I realized what it is and now I love it. Some RU-vidrs would also benefit from less music.
If you are to revisit this topic in future episodes, could you also talk about the species of eel that are used for “unagi” in sushi? They are also endangered and impossible to farm despite decades of efforts, but there is little public awareness to the fact.
ive harvested truffles in Libya (North Africa) and it was an experience like no other, you can spot them with. little cracks and rises in the sand/dirt. They were surprisingly common in some areas/regions.
Huckleberries were great. I used to work at a camp in Washinton's Cascade range and they were very abundant and lush. I still preferred wild blueberries and blackberries to the huckleberries, but there were acres and acres of them along the hill/mountainsides. Fond memories.
Great White Sharks die in captivity. If you somehow manage to farm them (or tame in this case), prepare to rule the seven seas with an army of loyal and ruthless sharks!
Hear a trick to kept great white in captivity. DON'T USE METAL TO BUIlD YOUR SHARK TANK. IT MESS WITH THERE ELECTRIC SENSERY ORGAN. IT LIKE LOOKING AT THE SUN 24/7 OR GET STRAPPED ON A BIG ROCKET AND YOU HAVE TO LISTEN ALL DAY EVERY DAY. IT'S DISORIENTING OR OVER STIMULATING, IT'S DAMAGING OVER TIME.
Another one is the termite mushroom/omajova that grows on huge termite heaps here in Namibia. Only during a certain time of the year. And only a specific type of termite that farms the fungi.
I’ve wondered about this many times!!! I haven’t watched this video yet though. Don’t let me down! I’ve wondered about certain mushrooms & herbs. I hope they are talked about 👍🏽
I have huckleberries in my yard out on the Atlantic side, and I care for them myself. I prune them, trim the bushes back into paths as some are taller than I am, and then I make them into freezer jam. I've always loved them, and while we also grow high bush blueberries, it seems that huckleberries have more demands for where they grow. Often near water or on hills with shallow soil, and they don't seem to like being moved. My challenge is getting some before the birds eat them all.
@@davidjacobs8558 the great war, ww1. That and French rural populations moving to cities en masse right before it basically annihilated a century of work in the field of truffle cultivation and it has never recovered.
Makes sense actually... Forests have been much more closely managed since medieval days, so it makes sense to have the fungi cultivated along side trees...
Huckleberries grow prolifically in my area which is very low elevation and in very thin soil - practically bare rock (Halifax, Nova Scotia). I hardly ever see anyone picking them, though they are yummy.
Hmm, you supposedly can buy the trees with truffle spores online. They did warn that it can take ten years. If I had an acreage I would buy some. One for the trees themselves so if the spores don’t make it I still have nice trees. Two if the spores do grow into truffles I have truffles. Not sure what exactly I would do with them but most likely I would cook with them and give them to friends and family for presents. I really like the whole homemade presents, baked goods, stuff you grew yourself type of presents. Maybe sell extras locally. But I think that would be more of a retirement thing. Selling eggs, yarn, honey, pickled vegetables, and extra truffles at the farmers market
While blåbær (Vaccinium myrtillus, literally "blueberries") are popular in Scandinavia, cloudberries are the ones that we've had to regulate the harvesting of.
And when huckleberry syrup or ice-cream is available temporarily in novelty shops, anyone who's ever had it goes nuts here in the fly over states... which is about twenty people.
It's not all about difficult to cultivate , difficult to store for long time and low popularity is also preventing the cultivation of some awesome local fruits and vegetables around the world. The backyard of my home alone has more than seven such fruits and vegetables...
Some corrections for the huckleberry segment(I think I forgot to post my first attempt? Or it got eaten by youtube glitchiness). Pacific huckleberries are not blue(as shown at 0:38), they're red or pink. Huckleberries in this region are also not a primarily high altitude thing, and are just as common or more so at low elevations(even/especially in snow free regions) The tidbit about them taking "up to 15 years" to bear fruit is also a tad misleading. While some cultivars might, the pacific red types tend to be closer to blueberries in growing time.
@@dylanwilliams5230 Hmm... that might explain a bush I saw up near Verlot. Growing out of a stump, looked for all the world like blueberries and was growing side by side with the more common red/pink huckleberries. Had assumed it was some kind of wild blueberry(though, admittedly, I'm unsure of what sort of range those have), but a blue huckleberry might very well be what it was if we do have those around here.
East Texas has had a thriving blueberry/huckleberry industry for well over 30 years based on a hybrid of a heat-hardy variety of huckleberry called the high-bush blueberry native to the South. The bushes are tall and are grown in huge orchards much like grapes.
Thank you for this very interesting video! I remember there's an online store in Germany that sells young trees treated with truffle spores/mycelium. It's not a scam but they write themselves that it takes a few years before the first fruit bodies show up.
Was JUST thinking about that! At my last job, we had to send someone to a town called Paw Paw, I was curious and looked up how it got the name. Discovered we have a quite unusual native fruit here in the USA that most people have never even heard of! I kind of want to try one someday.
