Sentences with phrase «atlantic bluefin tuna»

Atlantic bluefin tuna are corralled by fishing nets during the opening of the season in 2011 for tuna fishing off the coast of Barbate, Cadiz province, southern Spain.

Since 1970, western Atlantic bluefin tuna have declined by about 70 percent due to overfishing.

In 2011 the National Marine Fisheries Service added Atlantic bluefin tuna to the «species of concern» list and planned to reevaluate the effects of the oil spill on Atlantic bluefin tuna in early 2013, in order for more information to be available, and to then consider listing Atlantic bluefin tuna under the Endangered Species Act.

With stocks of Atlantic bluefin tuna down 75 per cent due to over-fishing, the European Commission said the trade ban's rejection threatened the survival of the ocean predator.

In spring 2010, the western Atlantic bluefin tuna took a hit at the height of its spawning season: Scientists estimate that BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico killed between 10 and 20 percent of juvenile western Atlantic bluefin tuna.

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According to the country's top fisheries negotiator, Masanori Miyahara, Japan will not join in any agreement to ban international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna under the United Nations treaty on endangered species.

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The BBC also pointed out that the stock of East Atlantic bluefin tuna has fallen so quickly that there is a possibility of it being listed as an endangered species; the southern bluefin tuna is currently listed as critically endangered.

At current rates of catch, driving up by increasing demand from Japan for use in sushi, Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks will be gone within 3 years.

The scientific and conservation communities have been calling for an international trade ban for years and Mathew told us last year about a report stating that Atlantic bluefin tuna could disappear in as little as three years if current catch levels were maintained.

When new quota levels for bluefin tuna were set last November, amid political wrangling, were described as being a «mockery of science», ignoring the evidence that the the East Atlantic bluefin tuna populations were falling so quickly that they could soon be listed as an endangered species.

Bluefin Tuna Stocks Down 97 % in Mediterranean In case you don't know what the big deal about bluefin tuna is all about, Sea Shepherd has prepared an Atlantic Bluefin Tuna fact sheet.

Some threatened and endangered species such as loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) and eastern brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) have been successfully saved from extinction, yet threats remain for them, as well as for Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), sturgeons (Ascipenser spp.), Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis), and Acropora corals.

But the population of western Atlantic bluefin tuna has declined by 64 percent from its 1970s level, due to decades of overfishing and use of wasteful fishing gear such as surface longlines, which indiscriminately catch and kill these tuna.

Atlantic bluefin tuna are incredible animals.

Heads of Atlantic bluefin tuna lay on a fishing vessel on the Mediterranean sea, near Garrucha, southern Spanish province of Almeria, March 25, 2010.

These findings point to a general severe depletion of top predators in the basin, including Atlantic bluefin tuna, which is considered critically endangered according to the declining trend observed in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean in the last 50 years.

In northern Africa, the first written evidence dates from the tenth century and refers to fishing gear used to catch mullets, Atlantic bluefin tuna (with large spears), and fish in shallow waters [258].

Lee Crockett, who directs Atlantic bluefin tuna conservation for the Pew Environment Group, released the following statement in response to a request by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) for proposals to develop an electronic bluefin catch documentation system.

Officials with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) were extremely busy last week, fielding more than 57,000 comments they received opposing a proposal that further incentivizes pelagic longliners to target Atlantic bluefin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the fish's only known western Atlantic spawning area.

In May, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment trustees proposed a project in the Gulf of Mexico to increase protections for western Atlantic bluefin tuna in its only known spawning area.

The Atlantic bluefin tuna is one of the largest, fastest, and most gorgeously colored of all the world's fishes.

In a disappointing turn of events for a severely depleted stock, fishery managers have taken an initial step to eliminate proven protections for western Atlantic bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Mexico.

Ranching the Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna quickly became a multi-million dollar enterprise, with some 67 ranches spread across the Mediterranean.

This award - winning investigation focused on the prized Eastern Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, a sushi delicacy served in restaurants worldwide.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today that «based on careful scientific review» it will not list Atlantic Bluefin tuna under the Endangered Species Act, a decision both lauded and admonished by those in the hot - topic arena.

These landings are of Western Atlantic Bluefin tuna, but the majority of the world's bluefin supply comes from the Mediterranean Sea.

Just look at recent coverage of the collapsing stocks of Atlantic bluefin tuna despite a treaty and theoretical limits, but with rampant illegal catches and continued sanctioned takes far above scientists» recommendations.

In August 2013, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service issued proposed fishing regulations for Atlantic bluefin tuna that could help stop the waste of this remarkable yet severely depleted fish.

A new study, published in the online edition of the journal Science, has provided fresh evidence that the ocean - crossing habits of two distinct populations of Atlantic bluefin tuna are contributing to mismanagement and the potentially devastating overfishing of the species.

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.

A powerful and innovative international journalistic effort has revealed the web of interests — from boat captains to European government agencies to fish auctions — behind the devastation of Atlantic bluefin tuna.

[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.]

NOAA finds endangered species listing for Atlantic bluefin tuna not warranted.

The Atlantic bluefin tuna, while under pressure from intensive fishing, does not need protection under the Endangered Species Act, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has concluded.

As you'll hear in part two of our chat in a couple of days, Watson's group is, for now, shifting its focus to waters off Libya where rogue fishing fleets are plundering Atlantic bluefin tuna in the absence of any effective governance.

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The latest study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, reports that this is the case for prized Atlantic bluefin tuna.

To see whether the regional emissions reductions were having an effect on fish at the top of the ocean food chain, researchers from Stony Brook University, the University of Massachusetts and Harvard University collected and analyzed tissue samples from nearly 1,300 Atlantic bluefin tuna captured between 2004 and 2012.

But the new research indicates that the western populations are vulnerable to pressure from all Atlantic bluefin tuna fisheries.

Large, powerful and prized for its meat, the Atlantic bluefin tuna has long intrigued human observers.

«Atlantic bluefin tuna clearly meet the criteria for an Appendix I listing, and WWF would enthusiastically support Monaco's proposal,» Stevens said.

But when you kill half - grown tuna in significant numbers you are cutting off the breeding cycle... Every single country on or in the Mediterranean, which is one of two breeding grounds for the Atlantic bluefin tuna, does this because there is so much money to be made in it.

The meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES (pronounced «sight - eez») this past March was a decided defeat for the Atlantic bluefin tuna.

UNITED NATIONS — A move to ban international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna will go before the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) for discussion and a possible vote, officials announced today.

Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) have seen a 46 % drop in range.

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News Scan: The deadliest catch (p 14) Sushi fans lament: a favorite fish, the Northern bluefin tuna found in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, is being caught in such great numbers that it may soon become endangered.

UPDATE: Tuna boats in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean will be allowed to catch a total of 13,500 tonnes of bluefin tuna next year, down from the provisional quota of 19,950 tonTuna boats in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean will be allowed to catch a total of 13,500 tonnes of bluefin tuna next year, down from the provisional quota of 19,950 tontuna next year, down from the provisional quota of 19,950 tonnes.