News tagged with pacific bluefin tuna
Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US
Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away - the first time a huge ...
May 28, 2012 |
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Chicken of the sea? Tuna farming getting a boost
(AP) -- Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild. Is this sushi's ...
Dec 05, 2009 |
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Marine predators in trouble: researchers
Iconic marine predators such as sharks, tunas, swordfish, and marlins are becoming increasingly rare under current fishing trends, say University of British Columbia researchers.
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Tracking top marine predators in a dynamic ocean
Like the vast African plains, two huge expanses of the North Pacific Ocean are major corridors of life, attracting an array of marine predators in predictable seasonal patterns, according to final results from the Census ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Unprecedented long study of Pacific predators shows importance of biological 'hotspots'
An unprecedented decade-long study of apex predators in the Pacific Ocean found a wider range of distribution among some species than previously thought, unknown relationships between other species, and the ...
Jun 22, 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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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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Little room left for fisheries
The Earth has run out of room to expand fisheries, according to a new study led by University of British Columbia researchers that charts the systemic expansion of industrialized fisheries.
Dec 02, 2010 |
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China tops world in catch and consumption of fish
China leads the world in tonnage of fish caught annually as well as the amount of fish consumed, according to new findings reported in National Geographic magazine.
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Protection for 2 shark species fails at UN meeting
(AP) -- Asian nations on Tuesday blocked U.S.-backed proposals to protect the heavily fished hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks on concerns that regulating the booming trade in fins could hurt poor coastal ...
Mar 23, 2010 |
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Export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna rejected
(AP) -- Fishing nations won a victory over environmentalists Thursday when a U.S.-backed proposal to ban export of the Atlantic bluefin tuna was overwhelmingly rejected at a U.N. wildlife meeting.
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna
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 ...
Nov 19, 2009 |
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