Tuna Scandal?

Tuna tossing is one of those weird sports Australia play. Each year, contestants in four categories hurl fish weighing up to 10 kilograms as far as they can, usually using a technique akin to an Olympic hammer thrower's. The winner in each category gets $1,000 Australian dollars

And okay so I may have questioned the ethics of tuna tossing and I am limited in what I can say here without appearing hypocritical but ...

Some reports from as far back as December claimed that this years Tunarama Festival would be replacing the actual tuna with polyurethane replicas.

The fake fish have been sculpted by a locally born artist to look just like the real thing.

Merriwyne Hore, the acting manager of the 2008 festival, said the switch was being made for several reasons, including to avoid wasting perfectly good fish.

Hore said some people had objected to the change, but it was judged necessary on ecological and monetary grounds.

"Some people don't like it because it's not original, but it's time we got green, got realistic about this," she said.

Is this true - is possible to be more farcical that the actual concept of 'tuna tossing'?

The Toss happened on the weekend and at this time, our reported have been unable to verify the use of real or fake tuna.

From IHT via Associated Press