Sentences with phrase «bluefin tuna used»

Small - scale fishing for bluefin tuna using traps, hooks and spears will be allowed to continue for the moment.

Not exact matches

The team tracked bluefin tuna in the wild using archival tags, which measured the depth of the fish, its internal body temperature, and the ambient water temperature.

The 53 - year - old Cape Cod fisherman used to hunt for large bluefin tuna.

In my mention of a plan to protect spawning bluefin tuna with a voluntary buyout allowing vessels in the Gulf to switch from using longlines bearing hundreds of baited hooks to more selective gear that would not catch bluefin tuna, I said the money would come from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

The fish served Monday was caught in the Gulf of Mexico using gear that specifically targets those sustainable tuna species, while reducing the unwanted bycatch of others, such as bluefin tuna, one of the globe's most in - demand, delicious and depleted fish.

In northern Africa, the first written evidence dates from the tenth century and refers to fishing gear used to catch mullets, Atlantic bluefin tuna (with large spears), and fish in shallow waters [258].

But the population of western Atlantic bluefin tuna has declined by 64 percent from its 1970s level, due to decades of overfishing and use of wasteful fishing gear such as surface longlines, which indiscriminately catch and kill these tuna.

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.