Sentences with phrase «mediterranean bluefin tuna»

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TOKYO — The conservation organization WWF is taking its campaign to save Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna to the source of the threat facing the species: Japanese consumers, who eat 80 % or so of the annual catch as sushi and sashimi.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tony Bourdain visits the Croatian coast to swim with bluefin tuna, hunt for a prized white truffle, and literally gets knocked off his feet as he is treated to the finest Mediterranean cuisine.

The U.S. has pushed for strong international action to stop overfishing of bluefin tuna by eastern harvesters in the Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic Ocean.»

The resolution calls for a three to five year moratorium on bluefin tuna fishing in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea to allow the stocks to increase.

The biomass of the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin has declined by about 30 percent over the last two decades, particularly since the onset of tuna «ranching» for the sushi trade, and the fish is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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

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.

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

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

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

Despite a global quota on the amount of bluefin tuna that can be harvested, poachers throughout the Mediterranean continue to exceed those limits, particularly in the area off the coast of Libya.

Bluefin tuna were once an abundant species in the Mediterranean, but after decades of overfishing they are now classified as «critically endangered».

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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

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.

Not surprising considering Japan consumes about 80 % of the world's bluefin tuna catch from the Mediterranean, and last month the BBC reported that a single bluefin tuna has been sold for the highest price in the past nine years at a Tokyo fish auction: a 511 pound fish reeled in just over $ 175,000.

Bluefin tuna were once an abundant species in the Mediterranean, but after decades of overfishing they are now

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

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