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Last Friday brought the news that the EU has banned fishing for Bluefin Tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.

via:: ENN Over-fishing The Carbon Footprint of Sushi Fishing Ban Enacted for Bluefin Tuna in Eastern Atlantic & Mediterranean US and WFF Push for Ban on Tuna Fishing So Much For Fish & Chips: A Greenpeace List of Most Over-fished Species

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.

More on Sea Shepherd: Sea Shepherd Begins Operation Blue Rage - Sails to Protect Endangered Bluefin Tuna in Mediterranean Japan Kills Sea Shepherd Anti-Whaling Ship.

More at: BBC News Bluefin Tuna, Overfishing US Should Push for Bluefin Tuna Fishing Moratorium, Conservation Groups Say Fishing Ban Enacted for Bluefin Tuna in Eastern Atlantic & Mediterranean Overfishing Update: Endangered Atlantic Bluefin on the Menu at Nobu in London, EU to Reconsider Common Fishing Policy

via: Reuters Bluefin Tuna New Bluefin Tuna Quota Levels Are A «Mockery of Science» US Should Push for Bluefin Tuna Fishing Moratorium, Conservation Groups Say Fishing Ban Enacted for Bluefin Tuna in Eastern Atlantic & Mediterranean

Sea Shepherd Begins «Operation Blue Rage» - Sails to Protect Endangered Bluefin Tuna in Mediterranean

Though critically endangered, stocks have decline 80 % in the past three decades, the high prices paid for bluefin tuna in the Japanese market mean that quota levels are continually not set low enough to allow the fish to recover, as well meaning that there is extensive illegal fishing going on.

Staff members are preparing to try bluefin tuna in larger tanks.

In fact, U.S. surface longlines catch more bluefin tuna in the Gulf now than they did before 1982.

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.

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.

Related The status of bluefin tuna in the Pacific is tracked by the International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna - like Species in the North Pacific Ocean.

Pew is pleased that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has recognized the major bycatch problem with bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Mexico, the fish's only known spawning area in the western Atlantic Ocean.

I wrote a close - focus piece on Block and bluefin tuna in 2005 that's worth a look.

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.

The team tracked bluefin tuna in the wild using archival tags, which measured the depth of the fish, its internal body temperature, and the ambient water temperature.

Researchers from CSIRO Fisheries implanted electronic tags in 180 southern bluefin tuna in the Great Australian Bight last January.

Is it too late for bluefin tuna in the wild?

Not exact matches

Head, who joined the company in late 2015, acknowledges that in previous iterations Clean Seas has burnt through hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholder value after high hopes for its southern bluefin tuna fish farming operations were dashed.

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

An Annex I listing would likely put an end to much of the «tuna ranching» operations in the Mediterranean, where trawlers catch live bluefin schools and concentrate them in aquatic feedlots, fattening them up for a few months before sending them to market.

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.

The CITES office in Geneva confirmed that Monaco has submitted a formal bid to add bluefin tuna to the Annex I list of threatened species and that the proposal will be part of the formal agenda at the next general conference in Doha, Qatar, in March 2010.

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.

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.

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.

Then people in Japan overdeveloped a lust for bluefin tuna, which has reached its epitome here in New York City where there's a restaurant called Masa [in which] a prix fixe lunch or dinner is $ 600.

As a result of global demand, the giants of the sea known as bluefin tuna are shrinking in size, or in some cases disappearing altogether.

You are looking at thousands of bluefin tuna that are six feet long and all are auctioned off and gone by 10 in the morning.

An enormous fortune was made in farming bluefin tuna.

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.

The only way to save the bluefin tuna, one of the most marvelous and endangered fish in the ocean, may be to domesticate the species

«Our results demonstrate that bluefin tuna are capable of ranging widely throughout the North Atlantic without regard to the stock boundary in the mid-Atlantic,» Block notes.

Radioactive cesium from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster shows up in bluefin tuna off the California coast, offering researchers a way to follow the fish's migratory history

In March, researchers from the University of Miami and Stanford University released test results showing oil caused heart deformations in young Bluefin tuna and a variety of other species, and may have led to low catch numbers in the years that followed the spilIn March, researchers from the University of Miami and Stanford University released test results showing oil caused heart deformations in young Bluefin tuna and a variety of other species, and may have led to low catch numbers in the years that followed the spilin young Bluefin tuna and a variety of other species, and may have led to low catch numbers in the years that followed the spilin the years that followed the spill.

In 2011 we tested 15 Pacific bluefin tuna, known migrants from Japan, for radioactive cesium from Fukushima.

As Ellis reports, a single bluefin tuna fetched $ 173,600 in Tokyo, and prices of a sushi dinner for two in New York City can reach $ 1,000.

Regulatory agencies should specifically mention bluefin and bigeye tuna in mercury advisories, he says.

But the bluefin tuna, a giant among fishes, is the premier choice for sushi and sashimi and has become the most desirable food fish in the world.

Heedless overfishing is steadily pushing the bluefin toward extinction, and the species may soon disappear unless entrepreneurial fish farmers can learn how to breed the tuna in captivity.

Bigeye tuna or lean bluefin tuna, which are more common in restaurants, had concentrations that approached or overshot by about 4 % the FDA limit — of 1.0 parts per million.

Bluefin tuna born in the Mediterranean cross the Atlantic to feed for a few years up and down the east coast of North America, mingling there with bluefins born in the Gulf of Mexico.

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

Underneath a helium - filled shark balloon, researchers discussed the endangered bluefin tuna and the efforts by an E.U. - funded collaboration to map out its life cycle and induce the fish to reproduce in captivity.

There is no doubt that the eastern bluefin tuna fishery in the Mediterranean was poorly controlled during the first few...

There is no doubt that the eastern bluefin tuna fishery in the Mediterranean was poorly controlled during the first few years of tuna penning and that urgent action is needed to ensure long - term sustainability of this fishery.

In other news, ICCAT agreed to keep its catch limits unchanged for highly endangered bluefin tuna.

The chief executive of the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Association, Brian Jeffriess, says Port Lincoln crews in South Australia are reporting an excellent quality and size catch.