News tagged with tuna
Record $736k paid for single tuna fish in Japan
A deep-pocketed restaurateur shelled out nearly three-quarters of a million dollars for a single tuna, the most ever paid for the fish, at Japan's Tsukiji fish market on Thursday.
Jan 05, 2012 |
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New study provides comprehensive view of the status of Atlantic bluefin tuna
A new model built around biological data from electronic tags, ear bone microchemistry and fisheries catch data for Atlantic bluefin tuna indicates fishing on one side of the Atlantic influences the other side. Bluefin populations ...
Dec 10, 2011 |
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US: Bluefin tuna probably OK after BP oil spill
(AP) -- Last year's BP oil spill probably won't push the troubled bluefin tuna population in the Gulf of Mexico over the edge as some scientists had worried, a federal analysis shows.
Dec 04, 2011 |
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Satellite data can help protect bluefin tuna
A new model developed by scientists of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) allows the potential presence of bluefin tuna to be tracked through daily updated maps, helping to protect endangered stocks and ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Overfishing on the menu of Istanbul conference
Hundreds of representatives of countries involved in bluefin tuna fishing, international organisations and NGOs met here Friday on how to improve catch controls and protect endangered species.
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Far more bluefin sold than reported caught: report
More than twice as many tonnes of Atlantic bluefin tuna were sold last year compared with official catch records for this threatened species, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Study helps assess global status of tuna and billfish stocks
A global study by an international team including professor John Graves of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science has found that several species of tunas and billfishes are threatened and in need of further ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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New fishing hook reduces shark catch
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have developed a new type of fishing hook to reduce the number of sharks accidently caught from commercial fishing. The special hook, called SMART Hook (Selective Magnetic and Repellent-Treated ...
Jun 08, 2011 |
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US keeps bluefin tuna off endangered list
The United States on Friday rejected calls to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna as an endangered species, saying that while it was worried about overfishing it did not fear imminent extinction.
May 27, 2011 |
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Study: 40 Mediterranean fish species could vanish
(AP) -- A new study suggests that more than 40 fish species in the Mediterranean could vanish in the next few years.
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Species loss tied to ecosystem collapse and recovery
The world's oceans are under siege. Conservation biologists regularly note the precipitous decline of key species, such as cod, bluefin tuna, swordfish and sharks. Lose enough of these top-line predators (among ...
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Jan 10, 2011 |
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Bluefin tuna catches to be reduced in Pacific: reports
Fishing nations have agreed to hold their catches of young bluefin tuna in the central and western Pacific in 2011 and 2012 below the 2002-2004 annual averages, press reports said Sunday.
Dec 12, 2010 |
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Progress made on protecting sharks, groups say
(AP) -- An international conservation conference in Paris made progress Saturday on protecting sharks but didn't do anything to save the Atlantic bluefin tuna, which has been severely overfished to feed the ...
Nov 28, 2010 |
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Australia moves to protect bluefin tuna
Australian has announced new measures to protect stocks of southern bluefin tuna, whose numbers are being threatened by the rising global popularity of sushi food.
Nov 25, 2010 |
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More than a million Atlantic sharks killed yearly: study
At least 1.3 million sharks, many listed as endangered, were harvested from the Atlantic in 2008 by industrial-scale fisheries unhampered by catch or size limits, according to a tally released Monday.
Nov 22, 2010 |
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