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The amount of meat we eat goes up, and it's usually working your way up the food chain toward the most energy intense, water intense, land intense sources of food — beef, at the top of the chain, or bluefin tuna at the top of the ocean chain.

[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.]

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus macoyii) roll over and over to soak up the sun as they skim along at or near the surface of the water, often for hours on end.

PAHs could stunt growth, an effect that could ripple through the ecosystem: smaller organisms are picked off by predators at a young age, leaving less food for larger fish such as red snapper and bluefin tuna.

Where the shelf ends and the continental slope drops steeply downwards, waters at 1,500 - 2,000 meters teem with long - lived predatory species such as bluefin tuna, swordfish, marlin and wahoos, which probably all swam through the plume.

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.

From the news that a single bluefin tuna has been sold for the highest price in the past nine years at a Tokyo fish auction to the government of Sweden allowing wolf hunting after a 45 - year ban to dwindle the population of 237 down to 210 wolves, a lot

And as the oil spill lurched toward the Mississippi Delta yesterday, containment efforts became a foremost concern: At stake are the livelihoods of oyster farmers, shrimp harvesters, and anyone who relies on the areas large tourism industry, just to name a few, as well as the fragile ecosystem of this area, including endangered Bluefin tuna who come to this area in springtime to spawn.

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.

According to Pepe Amat, a former manager at Fuentes & Sons who witnessed the episode, these were the experimental years, when the goal was to perfect the methods for fishing, caging, harvesting, and trading bluefin tuna.

Ransom Myers, a fisheries biologist at Canada's Dalhousie University and lead scientist in this study, says: «From giant blue marlin to mighty bluefin tuna, from tropical groupers to Antarctic cod, industrial fishing has scoured the global ocean.

Tune to the National Geographic channel on Thursday, April 19 at 5:00 p.m. EDT to watch the rebroadcast of «Superfish: Bluefin Tuna.»

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The goal is to defend the endangered bluefin tuna against illegal fishing operations, responsible for taking four times more fish than the legal quota, which are already so high that at current rates extinction for the fish is likely within a few years.

At a United Nations - backed conference aimed at regulating international trade in endangered species, the total ban on bluefin tuna fishing and trading was rejected on March 18, 201At a United Nations - backed conference aimed at regulating international trade in endangered species, the total ban on bluefin tuna fishing and trading was rejected on March 18, 201at regulating international trade in endangered species, the total ban on bluefin tuna fishing and trading was rejected on March 18, 2010.

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.

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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.

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.

The plumes are also direct evidence that the oil is mixing at every level of the ocean, from the fragile coral reefs at the bottom of the Gulf to the shallower spawning grounds of the bluefin tuna.

In search of the ultimate sushi experience, the author plunges into the frenzy of the world's biggest seafood market — Tokyo's Tsukiji, where a bluefin tuna can fetch more than $ 170,000 at auction — and discovers the artistry between ocean and plate, as well as some fishy surprises.

In a few days the 175 countries meeting at the CITES conference in Qatar will vote on a proposal to ban international trade in bluefin tuna.