Experts team up to study bluefin tuna and confirm return to UK waters
Atlantic bluefin tuna are known for being amongst the biggest, fastest and most valuable fish in the sea.
Ecology
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News tagged with bluefin tuna
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 future? Tuna raised ...
Ecology
Dec 5, 2009
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Evidence bolsters classification of a major spawning ground for Atlantic bluefin tuna off the northeast U.S.
The Slope Sea off the Northeast United States is a major spawning ground for Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), a new paper affirms. This finding likely has important implications for population dynamics and the survival ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2022
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A controversial comeback for a highly prized tuna
On a drizzling summer afternoon in South Portland, marine biologist Walt Golet is helping attach a quarter-ton Atlantic bluefin tuna to a heavy crane so it can be weighed as part of New England's premier tournament for the ...
Ecology
Aug 29, 2018
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Study finds fish fraud runs rampant at L.A. sushi restaurants
Next time you go out for sushi in Los Angeles, don't bother ordering halibut. Chances are it's not halibut at all.
Ecology
Jan 11, 2017
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Farming tuna on land heralded as a win for sustainability, but there are serious concerns about animal welfare
Atlantic bluefin tuna used to be caught only relatively rarely, mainly by sports fishermen in North America. But this all changed in the 1950s when consumers of sushi, particularly in Japan, developed more of a taste for ...
Ecology
Nov 1, 2023
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Bluefin tuna reveal global ocean patterns of mercury pollution
Bluefin tuna, a long-lived migratory species that accumulates mercury as it ages, can be used as a global barometer of the heavy metal and the risk posed to ocean life and human health, according to a study by Rutgers and ...
Environment
Sep 13, 2021
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How tuna stay warm with cold hearts
Scientists at The University of Manchester, working with colleagues at Stanford University in America, have discovered how prized bluefin tuna keep their hearts pumping during temperature changes that would stop a human heart. ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2015
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Climate change and overfishing are boosting toxic mercury levels in fish
We live in an era—the Anthropocene—where humans and societies are reshaping and changing ecosystems. Pollution, human-made climate change and overfishing have all altered marine life and ocean food webs.
Environment
Nov 8, 2019
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Fish evolve by playing it safe
New research supports the creation of more marine reserves in the world's oceans because, the authors say, fish can evolve to be more cautious and stay away from fishing nets.
Ecology
Mar 21, 2017
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