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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 ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 20

Track Atlantic bluefin tuna to learn migration, habitat secrets

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

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research offers roadmap towards sustainable pole-and-line-caught tuna

Research conducted at the University of York offers a blueprint for the long-term sustainability of tuna caught using the pole-and-line method.

Biology / Ecology

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Mercury is higher in some tuna species, according to DNA barcoding

New research showing that that mercury levels are higher in some species of tuna could help consumers minimize their consumption of the silvery metal in their sushi and provide a powerful new tool for regulatory ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

Biology / Ecology

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

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.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Deepwater Horizon' disaster hit bluefish tuna hard

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill couldn’t have occurred at a worse time for bluefin tuna: they had come to the area – a major spawning ground – to produce offspring. Satellites are helping assess ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

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.

Biology / Ecology

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

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 ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Deepwater mystery: Oil loose in the Gulf

(AP) -- Streaming video of oil pouring from the seafloor and images of dead, crude-soaked birds serve as visual bookends to the natural calamity unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 31, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6

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 ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 28, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0