Sentences with phrase «giant bluefin tuna»

Sometimes the human impact has been as direct as the bite of chain saws toppling ancient trees to make way for cattle pasture or nets corralling schools of giant bluefin tuna for the sushi trade or gunshots felling elephants for their ivory.

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As a result of global demand, the giants of the sea known as bluefin tuna are shrinking in size, or in some cases disappearing altogether.

But the bluefin tuna, a giant among fishes, is the premier choice for sushi and sashimi and has become the most desirable food fish in the world.

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One of the best Bunaken dive sites that we visited was Sachiko's Point, where we saw tuna, 3 types of trevally (giant, bigeye and bluefin), 2 great barracuda stalking their prey, a couple of sharks, some huge Napoleon wrasse, and thousands upon thousands of redtooth triggerfish.

Within the next few days, the first giant Pacific bluefin tuna of 2013 is expected to be auctioned in Tokyo for an astronomical price.

Ransom Myers, a fisheries biologist at Canada's Dalhousie University and lead scientist in this study, says: «From giant blue marlin to mighty bluefin tuna, from tropical groupers to Antarctic cod, industrial fishing has scoured the global ocean.