Sentences with phrase «spawning bluefin tuna»

Oil flecked across the wide Gulf seas will have far less impact on wildlife or fish or anything else than if blobs of the stuff happen to congregate in a marsh vital for a threatened species of breeding bird, or an aggregation of spawning bluefin tuna.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«NOAA is concerned about the status of bluefin tuna, including the potential effects of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill on the western stock of Atlantic bluefin, which spawns in the Gulf of Mexico,» said Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator.

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

In May, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment trustees proposed a project in the Gulf of Mexico to increase protections for western Atlantic bluefin tuna in its only known spawning area.

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.

And one fish that's spawning right now down there is the bluefin tuna.»

In spring 2010, the western Atlantic bluefin tuna took a hit at the height of its spawning season: Scientists estimate that BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico killed between 10 and 20 percent of juvenile western Atlantic bluefin tuna.

The plumes are also direct evidence that the oil is mixing at every level of the ocean, from the fragile coral reefs at the bottom of the Gulf to the shallower spawning grounds of the bluefin tuna.

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

Unlike other bluefin tuna farms, this one spawns its own young.