Sentences with phrase «bluefin tuna numbers»

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News Scan: The deadliest catch (p 14) Sushi fans lament: a favorite fish, the Northern bluefin tuna found in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, is being caught in such great numbers that it may soon become endangered.

But when you kill half - grown tuna in significant numbers you are cutting off the breeding cycle... Every single country on or in the Mediterranean, which is one of two breeding grounds for the Atlantic bluefin tuna, does this because there is so much money to be made in it.

In March, researchers from the University of Miami and Stanford University released test results showing oil caused heart deformations in young Bluefin tuna and a variety of other species, and may have led to low catch numbers in the years that followed the spill.

A 2014 stock assessment of bluefin tuna showed that the species» numbers have dwindled to only 4 percent of historical highs.

You may have read how a bit over a week ago a number of environmental groups were calling on the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat) to cut quota levels for bluefin tuna to protect that species from overfishing and collapse.

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