I'd like to keep them around, bluefin tuna sushi being one very tasty reason.
The bluefin tuna is as endangered as the giant panda and the white rhino.
ECONOMIST: Efforts to ban the international trade in bluefin tuna
Asia's sushi fad bodes ill for the bluefin tuna even on the far side of the world.
It can make it impossible for biologists to set realistic species management guidelines ( bluefin tuna again).
Some species have collapsed, like Atlantic cod, Atlantic bluefin tuna and Pacific salmon in California, Oregon and Washington.
Like the time in March 1997 when he got yanked overboard by a 7-foot-long, 375-pound bluefin tuna off Cape Hatteras, N.
As America already thinks the Atlantic bluefin tuna is overfished by Europeans, Mr Irranca-Davies will probably be pushing on an open door.
ECONOMIST: Efforts to ban the international trade in bluefin tuna
Workers yell, slice blocks of ice, haul massive bluefin tuna, spit, stop for a smoke, laugh, bone an eel and yell some more.
Yet even if the trade in bluefin tuna were to be halted completely, there would be no guarantee that the species would recover.
ECONOMIST: Efforts to ban the international trade in bluefin tuna
It seems likely that a fresh attempt to list bluefin tuna will have to wait until the next CITES meeting in three years time.
Atlantic bluefin tuna -- the most high-priced ocean fish in the world -- have declined by about 90 percent since the 1960s due to overfishing.
Atlantic bluefin tuna is the most overfished species in European waters.
BBC: Euro MPs back large-scale fishing reform to save stocks
On July 16th Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, announced that France would support the placing of Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna on the CITES list.
ECONOMIST: Efforts to ban the international trade in bluefin tuna
It is technically possible that bluefin tuna could be put back on the agenda before the meeting closes on March 25th, but this it is unlikely to happen.
But today the most profitable crop is southern bluefin tuna.
Shark fin is a particularly sorry example of the wanton decimation of ocean life feeding more indulgent tastes (see also bluefin tuna) as well as for more basic diets.
To make the light travel enormous distances, thousands of volts of electricity are sent through the cable's copper sleeve to power repeaters, each the size and roughly the shape of a bluefin tuna.
At the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona last week both Spain (an important tuna-fishing nation) and Japan (an important tuna-buying nation) supported the closure of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery until stocks rise.
In a study published last year in Conservation Letters, a group of scientists led by Brian MacKenzie, of the Technical University of Denmark, describe how they ran a computer model of the bluefin tuna's population dynamics.
ECONOMIST: Efforts to ban the international trade in bluefin tuna
The NOAA responded to the vote by committing to ensure that the organisation which currently manages bluefin tuna (albeit woefully) would implement fully its commitments and would continue to try to reduce fishing levels in line with scientific advice.
The auctions begin after 4am for costly boxes of sea urchins and move on to the warehouse for bluefin tuna, where the dealers walk round inspecting the huge animals with a torch in one gumboot and a handspike in the other.
The key to the success of the quota system, which is overseen by the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna in Canberra, is that the permits in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere are treated as private property and can be bought and sold or handed down to the next generation.
The PNA also moved to extend its restrictions on skipjack fishing to cover fishing for sashimi-grade tuna such as bigeye and bluefin.
Finally, in 1993, Japan, Australia and New Zealand devised a quota system that allows the trawlers to catch a set amount of southern bluefin in the wild and not one tuna more.
There is, of course, an irony that, while fishing authorities in Brussels openly declare their support for a moratorium on bluefin fishing in the Mediterranean, their rules continue to allow tuna to be caught by boats which were constructed with the help of public subsidies and processed in factories built, similarly, with EU financial aid.
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