Sentences with phrase «bluefin tuna fishery»

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.

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

But the new research indicates that the western populations are vulnerable to pressure from all Atlantic bluefin tuna fisheries.

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.

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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.