“Your arrival in the kitchens of the world was your death sentence”, is how Rocío Puntas Bernet’s report begins, which can be experienced as a staged reading at the Journalismusfest Innsbruck: a report about the coveted bluefin tuna. Within 30 years the former large stocks collapsed. The global boom in sushi has led to massive fishing pressure, particularly in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In the Turkish part of these seas it is considered extinct. In order to satisfy the global hunger for sushi, the huge animals are fattened in large numbers in the Mediterranean.
A story about the legal grey areas in the food industry and an ode to tuna. The Bühnen Bern and the journal Reportagen present their original stage format for the first time in Austria.
“Sushi From the Cage”, report of Rocío Puntas Bernet in Reportagen #57, March 2021
Actors: Linus Schütz
Directed by: Roger Vontobel
Assistance: Lisa-Katharina Breuer
Followed by a conversation with
Daniel Puntas Bernet
Editor-in-chief of Reportagen
and
Axel Hein
WWF Austria