What you can do…
To help save the bluefin, be vigilant about what tuna you eat. Always ask restaurants and fishmongers where they get their fish, and boycott bluefin sourced from the Mediterranean.
Tuna statistics:
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A single bluefin tuna was sold in Tokyo for £1.09 million ($2 million) in January 2013
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80 per cent of the world’s bluefin tuna is eaten in Japan, where it is known as ‘hon-maguro’ or ‘kuro-maguro’
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Bluefin fishing was banned the Gulf of Mexico in 1982, but fisheries still net tuna as bycatch
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It’s not all bad: bluefin spawning stock in the Mediterranean has nearly doubled since the 1950s
2 thoughts on “”
#2,
It’s very disappointing the way Japan violates the fishing regulations, in the mass killing of the whales they lie and say it’s for researching purposes when they’re pulling in the whales in alarming quantities, hundreds of tons of whales. I’m very particular about the kinds of fish I eat, if it’s anything endangered I don’t do it.
#4,
The people responsible for the violations should be heavily fined so as to reduce their profits, if all else fails confiscate their equipment, including their ships.