Sentences with phrase «bluefin tuna just»

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

The days of supplying fresh bluefin tuna just a few months a year were over.

Not exact matches

«We just call them sea otters and white sharks and bluefin tuna.»

He says that Pacific bluefin tuna stocks have shrunk to just 4 % of the historical population, making proper stock management a matter of urgency.

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.

Raising high - energy, warm - blooded predators that can swim 40 miles an hour, like the bluefin tuna, just doesn't feel right for a global population headed toward nine billion people.

We're hopeful this partnership of fishermen and environmentalists will clearly illustrate to NOAA officials just how important bluefin tuna is to us all.

But exactly to what extent all marine species in the area, from bluefin tuna to animals living just off the coast in marshlands, could be effected is still unknown.

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.

The Centre for Biological Diversity in Australia has appealed to the world to boycott bluefin tuna sold in sushi restaurants and in just over a week they already have 20,000 signatures from 91 countries.

The price of bluefin tuna has soared this year to over US$ 170,000 for just one fish.