News tagged with 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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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
Jan 10, 2011 |
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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 ...
Apr 21, 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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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 ...
May 22, 2012 |
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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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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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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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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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Battle lines emerge in bluefin tuna battle
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.
Nov 18, 2010 |
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