Early in the morning at the Tsukiji Fish Market

The Tsukiji Fish Market is the stuff of legends; it's where all the fresh fish is purchased early in the morning to become sashimi and sushi later on the same day all over Tokyo. The size of the market and diversity of fish produce is incredible, and there is an amazing sense of many buyers and sellers quietly and efficiently setting about the day's trade. There are lethal little motorised trolleys that zip up and down the slender aisles between the vendors, piled high with boxes of fish. Great band-saws deal with the enormous deep-frozen tuna that come in, and there are squeaky polystyrene boxes everywhere full of recently caught seafood. Tanks of water keep shellfish alive, and teams of workers hack away at various frozen carcasses... we later discovered the public isn't supposed to be in the market before 10am so this is an illicit early morning recording made by wandering through the market with binaural microphones on, listening in on the action, marveling at many sea creatures we had not seen before, and occasionally just getting in the way...