Sentences with phrase «bluefin catches to»

Prior to last week's meeting, the World Wildlife Fund had called for the total bluefin catch to be cut by half.

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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.

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 tonnes.

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 spill.

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.

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

When the waters warm up you may even have a chance to catch Marlin, Bluefin Tuna, or Yellowfin Tuna.

There is momentum for a buyout that would pay them to switch to trolling gear that does not catch bluefins, and would help them market their catch.

In my mention of a plan to protect spawning bluefin tuna with a voluntary buyout allowing vessels in the Gulf to switch from using longlines bearing hundreds of baited hooks to more selective gear that would not catch bluefin tuna, I said the money would come from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Fishermen employing indiscriminate surface longlines also get a piece of the quota to cover their incidental catch of bluefin, although they are not allowed to directly target those fish.

The fraud, which could involve organised crime groups, was carried out via the avoidance or falsification of the Bluefin Catch Documents (BCD) that are obligatory according to EU law concerning the fishing and trading of bluefin tuna - an endangered sBluefin Catch Documents (BCD) that are obligatory according to EU law concerning the fishing and trading of bluefin tuna - an endangered sbluefin tuna - an endangered species.

In short, N.O.A.A.'s solution to the incidental catch of bluefin tuna by surface longline fishermen is to allow them a larger share of the quota.

Finally, N.O.A.A. needs to keep its new proposed enforceable cap on the amount of bluefin tuna that can be caught on surface longlines to ensure that this sector stays within its quota.

But commercial catches of large bluefin in those waters — mostly bound for the sushi trade — are still almost entirely tuna that originated in the Gulf, according to the study.

The EU sets quota limits for each Member State to catch bluefin tuna, which is highly sought - after in Japan where the market price can reach $ 500 per kilo.

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.

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].

The proposal is a step in the right direction for ending the waste of depleted Atlantic bluefin, but changes are needed to more fully protect these fish and ensure that those who catch them selectively are rewarded for their efforts.

For the past 30 years, NOAA Fisheries has tried to limit the number of Atlantic bluefin caught and killed by surface longlines.

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.

Commenting on that, Mitsubishi admits that it deep - freezes some of its catch to smooth out short - term supply, some environmentalists believe the company is attempting to corner the bluefin market and hoard inventories as supply continues its downward spiral.

According to Miyahara, Japan feels that the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas - and not the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, referred to as CITES, should be the organization managing bluefin tuna catches.