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Satellite tagging is becoming fascinating in some animals, none more so than the endangered bluefin tuna.

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We know that satellite data shows that some 20 % of the endangered bluefin tuna spawn were killed in the spill.

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Too Many Hazards to Count The oil poses many more dangers to wildlife: It may kill off the critically endangered Bluefin Tuna's eggs.

The goal is to defend the endangered bluefin tuna against illegal fishing operations, responsible for taking four times more fish than the legal quota, which are already so high that at current rates extinction for the fish is likely within a few years.

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Nobu sells a tremendous amount of endangered bluefin tuna, and despite repeated warnings about the looming commercial extinction of this majestic fish from a vast international amalgamation of scientists, conservation organizations, foodies, bloggers, aquaria, filmmakers, actors, and even a European prince, Nobu refuses to change its practices.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- France and Spain banned industrial fishing of endangered bluefin tuna late on Tuesday for the rest of this season after fishermen from both countries exhausted their quotas more quickly than anticipated.

Beyond killing adult animals, the spawning grounds of endangered bluefin tuna and other iconic species is contaminated.

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.

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

Underneath a helium - filled shark balloon, researchers discussed the endangered bluefin tuna and the efforts by an E.U. - funded collaboration to map out its life cycle and induce the fish to reproduce in captivity.

Not exact matches

That's a stark contrast to the situation facing its endangered relative, the bluefin tuna.

UNITED NATIONS — A move to ban international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna will go before the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) for discussion and a possible vote, officials announced today.

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.

The meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES (pronounced «sight - eez») this past March was a decided defeat for the Atlantic bluefin tuna.

The only way to save the bluefin tuna, one of the most marvelous and endangered fish in the ocean, may be to domesticate the species

The Atlantic bluefin tuna, while under pressure from intensive fishing, does not need protection under the Endangered Species Act, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has concluded.

NOAA finds endangered species listing for Atlantic bluefin tuna not warranted.

[March 19 Updated Few were surprised when the United States could not muster support for its call to halt international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna at this year's meeting of parties to the international convention on trade in endangered species.]

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.

The biomass of the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin has declined by about 30 percent over the last two decades, particularly since the onset of tuna «ranching» for the sushi trade, and the fish is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today that «based on careful scientific review» it will not list Atlantic Bluefin tuna under the Endangered Species Act, a decision both lauded and admonished by those in the hot - topic arena.

These findings point to a general severe depletion of top predators in the basin, including Atlantic bluefin tuna, which is considered critically endangered according to the declining trend observed in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean in the last 50 years.

Bluefin tuna is a favorite for sushi in Japan, and despite its incredibly endangered status, is still commercially harvested and sold.

Some threatened and endangered species such as loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) and eastern brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) have been successfully saved from extinction, yet threats remain for them, as well as for Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), sturgeons (Ascipenser spp.), Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis), and Acropora corals.

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Though critically endangered, stocks have decline 80 % in the past three decades, the high prices paid for bluefin tuna in the Japanese market mean that quota levels are continually not set low enough to allow the fish to recover, as well meaning that there is extensive illegal fishing going on.

At a United Nations - backed conference aimed at regulating international trade in endangered species, the total ban on bluefin tuna fishing and trading was rejected on March 18, 2010.

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When new quota levels for bluefin tuna were set last November, amid political wrangling, were described as being a «mockery of science», ignoring the evidence that the the East Atlantic bluefin tuna populations were falling so quickly that they could soon be listed as an endangered species.

Bluefin tuna were once an abundant species in the Mediterranean, but after decades of overfishing they are now classified as «critically endangered».

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The BBC also pointed out that the stock of East Atlantic bluefin tuna has fallen so quickly that there is a possibility of it being listed as an endangered species; the southern bluefin tuna is currently listed as critically endangered.

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.

So which earns priority - a lot of money now, or having bluefin tuna a few years from now?The New York Times reports that in a telephone interview, Miyahara stated that if bluefin tuna is given status as a most - endangered species - which is should be - Japan will ignore the ban and leave its market open to continued imports.

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.

Atlantic and Southern bluefin tuna are both listed as endangered by IUCN, with populations of the former reduced 80 % since the 1970s.

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists both the Atlantic and the southern bluefin tuna as endangered or critically endangered on its «Red List» of imperiled species.

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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.