But the new research indicates that the western populations are vulnerable to pressure from all Atlantic
bluefin tuna fisheries.
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.
Not exact matches
The bottom line, as was true with whales and still is with
bluefin tuna and other threatened fishes, is that ensuring shark species» survival also ensures the survival of multiple
fisheries.
Researchers from CSIRO
Fisheries implanted electronic tags in 180 southern
bluefin tuna in the Great Australian Bight last January.
WWF is holding a 1 - day Symposium on Responsible Consumption of
Tuna here tomorrow where it hopes that government officials, seafood industry representatives, and ordinary consumers will listen to talks on how overfishing, capturing juvenile
tunas for fish farming, and poor
fisheries management has driven
bluefin stocks to 15 % of historical levels.
Of course, many
fisheries around the world remain in crisis, particularly the
bluefin tuna, a longtime focus of Dr. Safina.
Nov. 16, 2009 The latest meeting of the international commission created to manage harvests of
tunas and other wide - ranging fish species in the Atlantic Ocean ended by setting 2010 quotas for
bluefin tuna that conservation groups and United States
fisheries officials said were — while lowered — still far too high to allow the imperiled fish to recover.
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.
In August 2013, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
Fisheries Service issued proposed fishing regulations for Atlantic
bluefin tuna that could help stop the waste of this remarkable yet severely depleted fish.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The American
Bluefin Tuna Association is a diverse organization made up of commercial, charter, and recreational fishermen, shoreside businesses, fish buyers, and many others from Maine to Florida involved in the U.S. bluefin f
Bluefin Tuna Association is a diverse organization made up of commercial, charter, and recreational fishermen, shoreside businesses, fish buyers, and many others from Maine to Florida involved in the U.S.
bluefin f
bluefin fishery.
According to the country's top
fisheries negotiator, Masanori Miyahara, Japan will not join in any agreement to ban international trade in Atlantic
bluefin tuna under the United Nations treaty on endangered species.
But, there should be renewed interest in these allegations since, as Jaymi reported a couple of weeks ago, Japan's top
fisheries negotiator has stated that his country would not comply with an international trade ban on
bluefin tuna.
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Yuichiro Harada, a Tokyo - based
fisheries lobbyist supports «responsible»
bluefin tuna fishing, and said: «It's quite unfair to treat
tuna the same way as lions and tigers and elephants.
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.
The first comprehensive assessment of
tuna and billfish has put 5 of 8
tuna species on the Red List for threatened or endangered animals — and the IUCN is warning that
Bluefin tuna are particularly vulnerable to vanishing, without the closure of
fisheries.