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EU: bluefin tuna catches to be reduced

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The EU Commission says over 45 countries who catch tuna have agreed to cut catches of the threatened Atlantic bluefin tuna next year.


New study reveals first ever method to genetically identify all 8 tuna species

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new paper published October 27 in PLoS ONE, the online, open-access scientific journal, unveils for the first time a method to accurately distinguish between all eight tuna species from any kind of processed tissue using ...


New technologies help scientists track fish species

New technologies help scientists track fish species

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New tracking and observing technologies are giving marine conservationists a fish-eye view of conditions, from overfishing to climate change, that are contributing to declining fish populations, ...





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Scientists Find new migratory patterns for Mediterranean and Western Atlantic bluefin tuna

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research into the life cycle of Atlantic bluefin tuna shows, for the first time, that Mediterranean and North American bluefin mix substantially as juveniles, but return to their place of birth to spawn. These new research ...


Britain steamed over tuna rules

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 10, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Britain's fisheries minister Ben Bradshaw is calling on the European Union to ban fishing for bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea.


Overfishing threatens European bluefin tuna

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 07, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Bluefin tuna disappeared from Danish waters in the 1960s. Now the species could become depleted throughout the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean, according to analyses by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Aqua) ...


The 1,000th Tag

1,000 tags reveal mysteries of giant bluefin tuna

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created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A giant Atlantic bluefin tuna weighing more than half a ton had the honor of being fitted with the 1000th electronic tracking tag placed on this threatened species when it was caught and released on Monday ...


Juvenile bluefin tunas can dive to depths of more than 1000 meters

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to the AZTI-Tecnalia researchers, the first estimations of the geographical location of the recovered tag revealed that this fish had undertaken migrations between the Azores and Portugal during the winter, later ...


Tuna near extinction in Mediterranean

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created Jul 17, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The World Wildlife Fund says bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean is nearing extinction.


Overfishing may lead to tuna extinction

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created Nov 18, 2005 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Some scientists fear the bluefin tuna, Japan's unofficial national dish, is being caught in such numbers its commercial extinction is looming.


Learning from cod collapse to save tuna

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created Feb 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Continued mismanagement could force some tuna populations to quickly go the way of cod, a highly threatened fishery that once helped shape economies of whole nations, leading scientists said in the symposium “Last Best Chance ...


Unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna

Unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

While most of us would never willingly consume a highly endangered species, doing so might be as easy as plucking sushi from a bento box. New genetic detective work from the Sackler Institute for Comparative ...


Grading Tuna

Condition of bluefin tuna in gulf of maine is declining

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created Aug 23, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The quality of giant bluefin tuna caught in the Gulf of Maine has declined significantly since the early 1990s, researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found by analyzing detailed logbooks from ...



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