Regulations such as seasonal hook modifications and restrictions on the use of live bait have failed to sufficiently protect bluefin and other species from wasteful longline fishing. full story ![]()

It's not every day that fishermen and environmentalists agree. But in a significant move, the American Bluefin Tuna Association and the International Game Fish Association are partnering with The Pew Charitable Trusts to protect bluefin tuna, one of the most amazing fish in the sea. By working together, we might be able to help ensure a brighter future for this depleted...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 2 days ago)
Scientists report they can use trace amounts of radiation in bluefin tuna to sketch the crisscrossing passage of the fish through the world's largest ocean. Understanding how many fish move back and forth, may help with the conservation of bluefin tuna.
mercurynews.com (2 months and 5 days ago)
Research shows that using different fishing gear could eliminate the bycatch of bluefin tuna in their Gulf spawning grounds.
miamiherald.com (2 months and 28 days ago)

Bluefin tuna just can't catch a break. Weeks after it was reported that overfishing had reduced the Pacific population of the fish, which is popular in sushi bars, by over 96 percent, researchers have found trace levels of radiation still lingering in their flesh almost two years after the catastrophe at the nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan. And the tuna they studied were...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 30 days ago)
Last May I wrote a piece about Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of southern California that carried radiation from the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear plant that was damaged in the March 2011. The fish were caught in August 2011 as they migrated east 6,000 miles from their spawning grounds in Japan in search of prey.
forbes.com (3 months ago)

TOKYO (AP) — It is the king of sushi, one of the most expensive fish in the world — and dwindling so rapidly that some fear it could vanish from restaurant menus within a generation. Yet there is little alarm in Japan, the country that consumes about 80 percent of the world's bluefin tuna. Japanese fisheries experts blame cozy ties between regulators and fishermen and a...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 23 days ago)

Radiation from the nuclear disaster offers biologists an opportunity to study migrations of fish, turtles and birds across the Pacific. The research could benefit conservation efforts.Marine biologist Dan Madigan stood on a dock in San Diego and considered some freshly caught Pacific bluefin tuna. The fish had managed to swim 5,000 miles from their spawning grounds near...
latimes.com (2 months and 26 days ago)
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Bumble Bee Foods LLC is recalling some of its 5-ounce canned tuna because of a risk the fish could spoil. The compan... Read more: Bumble-Bee-Tuna, Tunafish, Video, Bumble Bee Recall, Tuna Recall, Tuna Cans, Business News, Bumble Bee Tuna Recall, Tuna, Ap, Business News
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 17 days ago)
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Bumble Bee Foods LLC has more than doubled the size of its recall of some of its 5-ounce canned tuna because of a risk that the fis... Read more: Bumble Bee, Canned Tuna Recall, Tuna Fish, Canned Tuna, Canned Foods, Bumble-Bee-Tuna-Recall, Food Recalls, Bumble Bee Tuna, Ap, Business News
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 12 days ago)
First thing you ought to know about Davy Crockett is that he warn’t born on no mountaintop in Tennessee. Fact is that Tennessee warn’t no state in 1786, the year of Crockett’s birth. He also preferred to be called David. Read full article >>
washingtonpost.com (2 months and 1 day ago)
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