Sentences with phrase «catching bluefin tuna»

Go fishing for the thrill of catching Bluefin tuna, snapper, trevally, Tommy Ruffs, King George whiting, snook or salmon.

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 EU sets quota limits for each Member State to catch bluefin tuna, which is highly sought - after in Japan where the market price can reach $ 500 per kilo.

Not exact matches

An Annex I listing would likely put an end to much of the «tuna ranching» operations in the Mediterranean, where trawlers catch live bluefin schools and concentrate them in aquatic feedlots, fattening them up for a few months before sending them to market.

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.

UPDATE: Tuna boats in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean will be allowed to catch a total of 13,500 tonnes of bluefin tuna next year, down from the provisional quota of 19,950 tonTuna boats in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean will be allowed to catch a total of 13,500 tonnes of bluefin tuna next year, down from the provisional quota of 19,950 tontuna next year, down from the provisional quota of 19,950 tonnes.

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.

TOKYO — The conservation organization WWF is taking its campaign to save Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna to the source of the threat facing the species: Japanese consumers, who eat 80 % or so of the annual catch as sushi and sashimi.

In other news, ICCAT agreed to keep its catch limits unchanged for highly endangered bluefin tuna.

The chief executive of the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Association, Brian Jeffriess, says Port Lincoln crews in South Australia are reporting an excellent quality and size catch.

She recommends avoiding overfished species such as shark, orange roughy and bluefin tuna and instead looking for seafood that has been caught in Australian waters, particularly wild bream, flathead, King George whiting and Australian salmon, all of which are categorised by the Australian Marine Conservation Society as the most sustainable in the current marketplace.

If you enjoy off - shore trolling, a variety of fabulous species can be caught in the regional waters including mahi mahi, wahoo, barracuda, kingfish, and tuna like yellowfin, bigeye, bluefin, bonito and blackfin.

From Baja up as far as the Channel Islands, we're seeing anglers catching bluefin and yellowfin tuna.

When the waters warm up you may even have a chance to catch Marlin, Bluefin Tuna, or Yellowfin Tuna.

Lee Crockett, who directs the U.S. Oceans program of The Pew Charitable Trusts, sent a compelling «Your Dot» piece on addressable problems with United States fishing regulations that are perpetuating wasteful catches of bluefin tuna on longlines set for other species.

Environmental and fishing communities have long been concerned about the massive waste of Atlantic bluefin tuna caught incidentally by surface longline fishermen targeting swordfish and yellowfin tuna.

The fraud, which could involve organised crime groups, was carried out via the avoidance or falsification of the Bluefin Catch Documents (BCD) that are obligatory according to EU law concerning the fishing and trading of bluefin tuna - an endangered sBluefin Catch Documents (BCD) that are obligatory according to EU law concerning the fishing and trading of bluefin tuna - an endangered sbluefin tuna - an endangered species.

In short, N.O.A.A.'s solution to the incidental catch of bluefin tuna by surface longline fishermen is to allow them a larger share of the quota.

Finally, N.O.A.A. needs to keep its new proposed enforceable cap on the amount of bluefin tuna that can be caught on surface longlines to ensure that this sector stays within its quota.

But commercial catches of large bluefin in those waters — mostly bound for the sushi trade — are still almost entirely tuna that originated in the Gulf, according to the study.

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.

Lee Crockett, who directs Atlantic bluefin tuna conservation for the Pew Environment Group, released the following statement in response to a request by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) for proposals to develop an electronic bluefin catch documentation system.

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.

One hundred metric tons of bluefin tuna is caught on long lines annually in the Gulf of Mexico, Wheatley said.

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.

In fact, U.S. surface longlines catch more bluefin tuna in the Gulf now than they did before 1982.

The scientific and conservation communities have been calling for an international trade ban for years and Mathew told us last year about a report stating that Atlantic bluefin tuna could disappear in as little as three years if current catch levels were maintained.

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.

According to Miyahara, Japan feels that the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas - and not the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, referred to as CITES, should be the organization managing bluefin tuna catches.

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.

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