Sentences with phrase «bluefin tuna»

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.

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.

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

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- France and Spain banned industrial fishing of endangered bluefin tuna late on Tuesday for the rest of this season after fishermen from both countries exhausted their quotas more quickly than anticipated.

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.

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.

In January 2013 scientists released an assessment that estimated a 96.4 percent decline of Pacific bluefin tuna from unfished levels.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists both the Atlantic and the southern bluefin tuna as endangered or critically endangered on its «Red List» of imperiled species.

Weather keeps oil from moving to coast, but shrimpers and oyster farmers begin to fear for the season's catches, as Bluefin tuna spawning season in the area also encroaches.

Go fishing for the thrill of catching Bluefin tuna, snapper, trevally, Tommy Ruffs, King George whiting, snook or salmon.

We also look at the impact of the oil spill on the critically endangered bluefin tuna population that spawns in the Gulf of Mexico.

«The only chance we have of preventing the extinction of fish species like bluefin tuna is making an alternative clean / cultured fish meat like Finless Foods available.»

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency responsible for fisheries management, should seize this opportunity to protect bluefin tuna from dying needlessly on surface longlines.

As the company refines it processes, Selden expects the price of its product to reach parity with bluefin tuna by the end of next year, at which point he hopes to be offering it in restaurants, likely in a presentation resembling a spicy tuna sushi roll.

The resolution also encourages additional research to be done on the relationship between the western Atlantic, eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna stocks and how they effect one another.

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.

photo: Stewart Butterfield / Creative Commons Illegal fishing for bluefin tuna by exceeding quotas, under - reporting quotas, and outright pirate fishing mean Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin are highly endangered.

Oil flecked across the wide Gulf seas will have far less impact on wildlife or fish or anything else than if blobs of the stuff happen to congregate in a marsh vital for a threatened species of breeding bird, or an aggregation of spawning bluefin tuna.

We took some time to talk about bluefin tuna, her life and what questions to ask the next time you order sushi.

«We don't want to simply say, «Don't eat bluefin tuna,»» Yamauchi said, lest the message have unintended consequences for Pacific fishing fleets.

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

are partnering with The Pew Charitable Trusts to protect bluefin tuna, one of the most amazing fish in the sea.

Shana Miller is director of Tag - a-Giant, an organization that's reversing the decline of northern bluefin tuna populations.

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.

[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.]

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.

The American Bluefin Tuna Association, an industry group, called NOAA's decision «wise.»

A recent report from NOAA Fisheries shows that the surface longline fishery in the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean wasted almost 25 percent of the entire U.S. bluefin tuna quota in 2012.

An enormous fortune was made in farming bluefin tuna.

This summer, the Obama Administration is expected to issue new bluefin tuna regulations for U.S. fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean.

Sometimes the human impact has been as direct as the bite of chain saws toppling ancient trees to make way for cattle pasture or nets corralling schools of giant bluefin tuna for the sushi trade or gunshots felling elephants for their ivory.

That's a worrisome fact for sushi lovers, as the prized bluefin tuna can weigh more than 500 kilograms.

Mitsubishi, Japanese mega-conglomerate, was alleged to have started hoarding thousands of tons of bluefin tuna just as stocks of the fish plummet worldwide.

After last year's successful actions against illegal bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean, Sea Shepherd is facing a legal setback.

For example, in November 2009, Relais et Châteaux called on its member restaurants and hotels to stop serving bluefin tuna, and the Center for Biological Diversity in the United States has collected more than 30,000 signatures in its effort to create a consumption boycott.

In fact, off the eastern coast of Nova Scotia, where enormous bluefin tuna used to be visible deep beneath the waves, populations have dropped by 90 percent, according to the consortium of countries that make up the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.

NEW BEDFORD — NOAA scientists have found western Atlantic bluefin tuna larvae in waters off the western North Atlantic, challenging some long - held assumptions about the fish and its migratory behavior, and pointing science in a new direction when assessing bluefin stocks and migration patterns.

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

Europe had an entirely different reaction to the outcome of the meeting, with the European Commission hailing the new quotas and steps as «decisive actions to save bluefin tuna and other marine species.»

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.

A couple of pieces in The Times relate to ongoing coverage here of the causes and consequences of variations in solar activity and the issues raised by the burgeoning human appetite for sushi - bound fish, particularly bluefin tuna.

Northern bluefin tuna inside a towed cage on their way from Libya to fattening farms along Sicily's coast.

Overfishing causes Pacific bluefin tuna numbers to drop 96 % Ending Overfishing.

Such a presence in the middle of the fishing season has caused WWF to raise serious concerns that some boats might be operating in contravention of international bluefin tuna conservation rules.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service today proposed bluefin tuna regulations that would have a direct impact on fishermen from Texas to Maine.