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Susan Lieberman, deputy director of international policy at the Pew Environment Group, says that by focusing attention on Collette's paper and other assessments of the dire state of tuna fisheries, conservationists and scientists can pressure the RFMOs to make important decisions.

«Someone could just go over with a net, catch a shitload of these fish and screw me out of the tuna fishery,» says council member John McMurray, who owns a charter fishing business in New York.

By gathering more information on the movements of these tuna, we can improve management of the tuna fishery.

Not exact matches

Genova is proud to source all of our tuna from MSC certified fisheries.

Genova is committed to sourcing 100 % of our branded tuna from fisheries that are either Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified, or engaged in fishery improvement projects to move them towards MSC certification.

The company actively promotes the responsible stewardship of global fisheries resources and is a founding member of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF)-- a global partnership of scientists, tuna processors and WWF, the global conservation organization.

The five regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) meeting at Kobe III manage tuna fisheries in 91 % of the world's oceans, notes the Pew Environment Group, an advocacy organization based in Washington DC.

Bruce Collette, who studies ocean fish at the National Marine Fisheries Service Systematics Laboratory in Washington DC, and his colleagues conducted the first global assessment of the scrombids and billfish, groups of fish that include some of the species with the highest value as seafood, such as tuna and marlin, as well as staples such as mackerel.

But many of the actual decisions on fisheries are taken at the management organizations» individual meetings — such as that of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, which met on 4 - 8 July in La Jolla.

Economists, fisheries and evolutionary biologists from Kiel University, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and the Finnish University of Helsinki working together in an interdisciplinary project have calculated how fishery and aquaculture will develop in the coming decades in regard to popular types of edible fish such as sea bass, salmon, cod and tuna.

The bottom line, as was true with whales and still is with bluefin tuna and other threatened fishes, is that ensuring shark species» survival also ensures the survival of multiple fisheries.

The Gulf of Mexico supports a fishery of dolphin fish, wahoo, tuna, and king mackerel.

Commercial fishermen harvest a wide variety of animals, ranging from tuna, cod, carp, and salmon to shrimp, krill, lobster, clams, squid, and crab, in various fisheries for these species.

In fact, we're eating more seafood than ever and more of it comes from the least sustainable fisheries: shrimp, tuna and salmon.

Our appetite for seafood has pushed three - quarters of the world's fisheries to or beyond the limits of sustainability, while nine out of 10 of the sea's large fish like tuna and swordfish have disappeared.

Four Fish by Paul Greenberg (Penguin Press) Salmon, bass, cod, and tuna — through this troubled quartet of dinner - table mainstays, journalist Greenberg skillfully tells the tale of how the world's fisheries got to be in such a precarious state.

WWF is holding a 1 - day Symposium on Responsible Consumption of Tuna here tomorrow where it hopes that government officials, seafood industry representatives, and ordinary consumers will listen to talks on how overfishing, capturing juvenile tunas for fish farming, and poor fisheries management has driven bluefin stocks to 15 % of historical levels.

«Both organizations have to cooperate to realize the conservation of Pacific Ocean tuna,» said Hisashi Endo, an official with Japan's Fisheries Agency, at the briefing.

There is no doubt that the eastern bluefin tuna fishery in the Mediterranean was poorly controlled during the first few years of tuna penning and that urgent action is needed to ensure long - term sustainability of this fishery.

The town has its origins as an ancient Roman port — signs of this heritage can still be seen near the town's old tuna fishery.

These three climate phenomena have produced the uniquely long - lasting surge in water temperature that is attracting tuna and other fish much closer to shore — and much farther north than they would normally swim, said Toby Garfield, director of the environmental research division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla.

The Tonnara was an active tuna fishing factory until the 1980's and is now possibly one of the only intact pieces of evidence of a traditional Mediterranean tuna fishery.

Of course, many fisheries around the world remain in crisis, particularly the bluefin tuna, a longtime focus of Dr. SafinOf course, many fisheries around the world remain in crisis, particularly the bluefin tuna, a longtime focus of Dr. Safinof Dr. Safina.

Nov. 16, 2009 The latest meeting of the international commission created to manage harvests of tunas and other wide - ranging fish species in the Atlantic Ocean ended by setting 2010 quotas for bluefin tuna that conservation groups and United States fisheries officials said were — while lowered — still far too high to allow the imperiled fish to recover.

Pew is pleased that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has recognized the major bycatch problem with bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Mexico, the fish's only known spawning area in the western Atlantic Ocean.

Given that tagging studies have shown that the half - ton tuna can roam the full span of the Atlantic in seeking breeding and feeding grounds, the European position is widely seen by fisheries specialists as sending the fabled species spiraling further toward outright collapse.

In August 2013, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service issued proposed fishing regulations for Atlantic bluefin tuna that could help stop the waste of this remarkable yet severely depleted fish.

In a disappointing turn of events for a severely depleted stock, fishery managers have taken an initial step to eliminate proven protections for western Atlantic bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Mexico.

Officials with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) were extremely busy last week, fielding more than 57,000 comments they received opposing a proposal that further incentivizes pelagic longliners to target Atlantic bluefin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the fish's only known western Atlantic spawning area.

This summer, the Obama Administration is expected to issue new bluefin tuna regulations for U.S. fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean.

A recent report from NOAA Fisheries shows that the surface longline fishery in the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean wasted almost 25 percent of the entire U.S. bluefin tuna quota in 2012.

The American Bluefin Tuna Association is a diverse organization made up of commercial, charter, and recreational fishermen, shoreside businesses, fish buyers, and many others from Maine to Florida involved in the U.S. bluefin fishery.

From raising awareness of how North Sea Fisheries throw half their catch back dead to convincing a supermarket giant to switch to sustainable tuna, Hugh Fearnley - Whittingstall's Fish Fight campaign is creating massive interest in the issue of sustainable fishing.

Perhaps tuna not so much they more kind of chase their prey,» said Lesley Jantz, Fishery Biologist, NOAA fisheries observer program.

But, there should be renewed interest in these allegations since, as Jaymi reported a couple of weeks ago, Japan's top fisheries negotiator has stated that his country would not comply with an international trade ban on bluefin tuna.

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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.

The first comprehensive assessment of tuna and billfish has put 5 of 8 tuna species on the Red List for threatened or endangered animals — and the IUCN is warning that Bluefin tuna are particularly vulnerable to vanishing, without the closure of fisheries.