bluefin

Things might be better for the bluefin if it were possible to breed them in captivity, as well as raising them there.

It's not just a matter of taking bluefin tuna and other valuable species out of the oceans through industrial fishing.

Yet even if the trade in bluefin tuna were to be halted completely, there would be no guarantee that the species would recover.

The bluefin has proved to be no match for a high-tech fishing industry, which has sent their numbers into a precipitous decline.

It seems likely that a fresh attempt to list bluefin tuna will have to wait until the next CITES meeting in three years time.

So many giant bluefin have been hauled out of the Mediterranean that the population is in danger of collapse.

Conservation groups criticized the move, saying the cut is not big enough to support the recovery of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean.

And every single day these tuna , bluefin like this, are stacked up like cordwood, just warehouse after warehouse .

From Sabine, the Assistant Cook and one of the activists on board the Arctic Sunrise in the Med right now - for our bluefin tuna campaign.

Overfishing and acidification of the oceans are threatening marine species as diverse as the bluefin tuna and reef-forming corals.

Bluefin was not the only sea creature which lost out.

As for the animals that call the area home, sea turtles and bluefin tuna were some of the species that were hit pretty hard.

The breakthrough fuelled hopes for a solution to the overfishing that has pushed the bluefin to near extinction.

Conservation activists say the eastern Atlantic has only about one-fourth as many bluefin tuna as it did in the nineteen fifties.

Out in the Gulf itself, the impact on bluefin tuna is potentially significant.

If bluefin could be farmed routinely, it might bring the price down, relieving pressure on wild stocks, as happened with salmon.

IT WAS a moment of some drama when delegates assembled in Doha came to vote on a ban in the trade in bluefin tuna on March 18th.

We have no other choice but to act now and propose a ban on commercial bluefin tuna fishing.

Perhaps the most grotesque form of fish farming is the ranching of bluefin tuna, a delicacy that may sell for as much as $860 a kilo.

They say the quality of the meat from a bluefin killed straight after being caught is less tasty, as the fish has been stressed.

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas recently voted to lower bluefin fishing quotas.

Meanwhile, the bluefin population is thought to have dwindled by 75 per cent in recent years, due to overfishing.

On the supply side, fishermen complain that the size of the bluefin they are catching has plummeted in recent years.

The bluefin tuna is a veritable eating machine, superbly adapted to hunting in the cold waters of the temperate oceans.

To appease ban supporters, Japan is considering quotas to protect young bluefin, a shorter fishing season and rules on catch size reporting.

We hear instead about the magnificent emblems of our seas: the bluefin tuna, the swordfish, the Atlantic salmon, the cod.

The bluefin - the most talked about tuna species recently, and the most prized for sushi - is not a factor in this cruise.

FAITH LAPIDUS: The researchers learned that Pacific bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific Ocean three times in six hundred days.

The most highly prized form of raw fish is bluefin tuna , which is caught both in the Pacific and from Atlantic ports in Maine .

The goal is to rebuild bluefin populations in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean by twenty twenty-two.

The CITES Conference in Doha, Qatar later this month will consider the proposed commercial trade ban on bluefin tuna.

As a result, the U. S. and other countries proposed a ban on bluefin tuna trade to allow the pack-hunting ocean predator to recover.

An international group has set the limit for next year's catch of bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.

Japan called for stronger action against illegal fishing and under-reporting of bluefin catches.

NOVEMBER has become the season for the great annual bluefin-tuna bust up.

Environmental groups say illegal fishing and under-reporting might mean there are even fewer bluefin than estimates suggest.

Bluefin tuna are a pelagic species: they live in the open waters, far beyond the reach (and governance) of individual nations.

For decades the Atlantic bluefin-tuna fishery has fallen into the former camp.

Add bluefin tuna and green turtles to the casualties in the Hezbollah-Israel conflict.

Even a small school of 200 bluefin can, when fattened, fetch more than half a million dollars on the Japanese market.

These fish include red snapper , Atlantic salmon, bluefin tuna, and king crab.

Atlantic bluefin can grow three meters long and weigh as much as six hundred fifty kilograms.

France, Italy and Spain catch most of the Atlantic bluefin eaten in the world. Most of the catch goes to Japan.

Last Thursday, the Kinki University team said they will soon be mass-producing bluefin from hatchlings.

Greenpeace activists display a banner and crosses in front of a bluefin tuna farm near Cartagena, southern Spain August 30, 2006.

Asia's sushi fad bodes ill for the bluefin tuna even on the far side of the world.

Conservationists want to ban international trade in bluefin tuna to allow stocks to regenerate.

Italy is to stop fishing for bluefin tuna for 12 months, Agence France-Presse said.

A bluefin tuna can release 10 million fertilized eggs in a spawning season.

It's very difficult to coax the notoriously fussy bluefin tuna to breed in landlocked tanks.

As more farms grow bluefin from eggs, they could become less dependent on populations of wild fish.

The outlook for the bluefin tuna is not good.

France, Italy and Spain catch most of the Atlantic bluefin eaten in the world.

By 2004, the university had shipped the first of its bluefin to market.

Indeed, the World Wildlife Fund, a nature conservation organisation, reckons that bluefin spawners will be virtually eliminated by 2012.

France, ItalianItaly and Spain catch most of the Atlantic bluefin eaten in the world.

Prominent on the menu was bluefin tuna sushi.

TheyThese caged bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) swim in Spanish waters.

Some blame rising bluefin consumption in countries such as China and Singapore.

The good news, says Kinki University's Ariji, is that "farmed and wild bluefin now fetch comparable market prices. "

Atlantic bluefin can grow 3 meters long, and weigh as much as 650kg.

If we weren't so efficient at catching them, because they grow their entire life, would have 30-year-old bluefin out there that weigh a ton.

Ariji's bold prediction: within five years, half of the bluefin eaten in Japan could be farm-raised, up from a mere 10 per cent now.

The European commission decided to support a ban on the international trade of North Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna this week

In the Gulf of Mexico bluefin tuna is a large reproduction, their eggs and young fish floating in the sea;

Convention for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna;

Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna

Deep blue sea: Endangered Bluefin Tuna in waters Mediterranean off Malta

Efforts to ban the international trade in bluefin tuna

percent: decline in the spawning population of western bluefin tuna since 1970