Annual catches of Atlantic bluefin tuna will rise slightly from next year, green groups said Monday at a meeting of countries that hunt the much-prized but threatened species.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 19, 2012 not rated yet 0

Fishing nations meet in Morocco this week to thrash out tuna quotas as experts urge maintaining bluefin catch limits amid promising signs of the decimated species making a comeback.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 12, 2012 not rated yet 0

(AP)—After defeating a proposal in 2010 to ban the export of an endangered fish that is a key ingredient of sushi, Japan and Asian nations argued it should be left to quota-setting international fisheries ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 10, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

New fish-tagging studies of young bluefin tuna in Atlantic waters off New England by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are offering the first fishery-independent, year-round data on dispersal ...

Biology - Ecology

May 22, 2012 2 / 5 (1) 0

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.

Biology - Other

Jan 05, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 0

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 ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 10, 2011 not rated yet 0

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.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 11, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

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.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 18, 2011 4 / 5 (1) 0

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.

Biology - Ecology

May 27, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 1

(AP) -- A new study suggests that more than 40 fish species in the Mediterranean could vanish in the next few years.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 19, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

(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 ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 28, 2010 2 / 5 (2) 0

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.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 22, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0

A meeting on the fate of the Atlantic bluefin tuna got into its stride on Thursday as Europe mulled a call for a modest cut in catches and Japan said it would propose a fishing ban on nations that cheat.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 18, 2010 3.8 / 5 (4) 3

The craze for sushi has fueled a black market in tuna worth billions of dollars, as governments collaborate with the industry despite fears for the species' survival, an investigation found.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 07, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0

Electronic tagging and fisheries catch data have revealed pronounced differences in preferred habitat of Atlantic bluefin tuna and yellowfin tuna in the Gulf of Mexico, despite their close ancestry, according ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 28, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 1