Sushi Lovers: Avoid the Extinction-heading Bluefin Tuna

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Sushi Lovers: Avoid the Extinction-heading Bluefin Tuna

December 28, 2007 —

Bluefin tuna is the sushi lover’s sushi of choice—feeding a growing demand. Many sushi restaurants in the U.S. are called Bluefin. But the Atlantic-based fish is nearing extinction, a fact known for decades, but now is of great urgency. Despite international catch quotas set, bluefin tuna was over fished this year by 50 percent. The plight is now so severe that even chefs in restaurants and cooking writers are strongly advocating that consumers stop ordering bluefin sushi.

Over the past four years bluefin (which can sell for $170,000 each) have been over fished, causing a fracas between Americans and Europeans on who is responsible. Scientists are using new techniques to track the tunas, study behavior and perhaps stall the extinction. But the consumers who are driving the fishing are really the deciding factor.

While some chefs are pulling bluefin from their menus or creating alternatives, consumer advocates are recommending that tuna lovers give up bluefin products altogether. Even in Japan the yellowfin tuna is replacing the bluefin for sushi as the extinction is becoming more well known. Best practices: don't order bluefin sushi and check with your restaurant on the source of their tuna sushi to make sure it is not bluefin. Check with your fish provider to make sure you are not getting bluefin. Tuna fish in a can is usually yellowfin of skipjack. But if it is bluefin, don’t buy it.

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The hunting of highly valued

Submitted by Anonymous on November 2, 2008 - 00:54.

The hunting of highly valued animals into oblivion is a symptom of human foolishness that many consign to the unenlightened past, like the 19th century, when bird species were wiped out for feathered hats and bison were decimated for sport. But the slaughter of the giant bluefin tuna is happening now.
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Submitted by Anonymous on March 29, 2010 - 20:35.

I am very interested for this post. The conference is discussing possible solutions to save this species from distinction and see its impacts on the environment. The environment experts are suggesting a temporary ban as the only option to prevent the fish from becoming extinct and allow for stocks to recover. There are many countries which support this suggestion and are pushing for it. But this industry has thousands of people attached with it specially the fishermen in southern France who could be forced into bankruptcy if the ban comes into effect.Thanks for this article. Its really a good topic. I like this side. Give me some information about this side.

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Submitted by papulahandsum on June 24, 2010 - 00:40.

As the Wired article above reports, the Japanese consume 75% of the bluefin tuna caught in the oceans. Their driving of this fish to the edge of extinction hasn't lessened their ardor for bluefin. At the same time, exhaustion of oil reserves will come too late to save tuna. We humans need to support stronger political restrictions on overfishing of tuna and other fish species. We need to loudly tell the Japanese (and sushi eaters in Western countries) find something else to eat instead.

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The crisis facing our oceans

Submitted by ddsrocky on July 1, 2010 - 18:56.

The crisis facing our oceans and key species like the bluefin tuna requires urgent action: the scientific consensus is that over 80 percent of the species has already been fished. If current fishing rates continue, scientists predict that the bluefin could disappear as a commercial species in just a few years. Globally, over 90 percent of large fish like tuna have disappeared from our oceans, and some scientists warn that all commercial fisheries could collapse within decades.

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The Kindai bluefin represent

Submitted by ddsrocky on July 1, 2010 - 20:47.

The Kindai bluefin represent what a handful of researchers say is a third way. Scientists at Japan's Kinki University and Australia's Clean Seas Tuna Ltd., a commercial operation, have produced the Kindai from hatched eggs rather than captured juveniles. Clean Seas, which is consulting with Kinki, has yet to start marketing its fish, but it reported this month that its separate brood stock of bluefin from the Southern Ocean have started spawning.

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We will intensify our

Submitted by nilnodi007 on July 1, 2010 - 22:21.

We will intensify our efforts to control these [bluefin tuna] resources and prevent illegal harvesting of these fish. We believe we have the responsibility to show leadership in control over these resources," Hirotaka Akamatsu told reporters.

Japan, which consumes about 80% of bluefin harvested worldwide, has been a target of criticism for endangering tuna populations in the Atlantic.

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The Greenpeace flagship

Submitted by fulmoti007 on July 3, 2010 - 01:59.

The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior will be departing the Vittoriosa waterfront tomorrow morning on a campaign to halt bluefin tuna fishing in the Med.

The bluefin tuna season starts tomorrow and is expected to last until June 15.

Greenpeace campaigner Oliver Knowles told timesofmalta.com that Greenpeace wanted to avoid the collapse of the bluefin tuna stocks.

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