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Bluefin Tuna Threatened By Sushi Craze

by Vinny | September 30, 2007 at 05:46 pm | 452 views | 4 comments | 4 recommendations

A system of corralling bluefin tuna into "tuna ranches" as well as a growing tuna fishing fleet has made fish stocks dangerously close to collapse according to scientists from ICCAT. A fisheries officer from the WWF has warned the whole ecology of the Mediterranean could be destabilized.

BARBATE, Spain (Reuters) - Fishermen like Diego Crespo have trapped the giant tuna swarming into the warm Mediterranean for over 3,000 years, but he says this year may be one of his last.

Japanese demand for its fatty flesh to make sushi has sparked a fishing frenzy for the Atlantic bluefin tuna -- a torpedo-shaped brute weighing up to half a tonne that can accelerate faster than a Porsche 911.

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Brian A Kennedy

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at 03:59 on October 1st, 2007

And to think that people once thought tuna was a trash fish... thanks for this, vinny1.

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at 04:12 on October 1st, 2007

vinny1, good stuff. History repeats itself: fads lead to slaughter of entire species, like birds for feathers in ladies' hats in the 1800's, ditto beaver for hats.