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
Not exact matches
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic
Tunas (ICCAT) says this gives the species a 60 per cent chance of recovering within 15 years, but environmental groups say it is not enough to
save the
bluefin from commercial extinction.
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.
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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