Environmental and fishing communities have long been concerned about the massive waste of Atlantic bluefin tuna caught incidentally by surface longline fishermen targeting swordfish and yellowfin tuna. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
[March 19 Updated Few were surprised when the United States could not muster support for its call to halt international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna at this year's meeting of parties to the international convention on trade in endangered species.] (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Lee Crockett, who directs the U.S. Oceans program of The Pew Charitable Trusts, sent a compelling «Your Dot» piece on addressable problems with United States fishing regulations that are perpetuating wasteful catches of bluefin tuna on longlines set for other species. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)