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Japan's radioactive bluefin tuna migrated to U.S.

Scientists have detected radioactivity in California's Pacific bluefin tuna... more

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Sushi to the Slaughter

From Siberia to the Amazon, you can now get your sushi fix in some of the most remote... more

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$736,000 BLUEFIN TUNA IN TOKYO AUCTION (VIDEO)

$736,000 bluefin tuna...Kiyoshi Kimura paid 56.49 million yen ($736,000) for a bluefin... more

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Record $736k paid for single tuna fish in Japan

A deep-pocketed restaurateur shelled out nearly three-quarters of a million dollars... more

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The curse of FAD fishing

Video at the link (guardian website) Shocking footage reveals tuna... more

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The Tuna Industry’s Four Dirty Little Secrets

Seafood isn’t only sold in the seafood section. Americans buy a tremendous... more

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The Global Pet Expo Brings You: The Giant Dog Hamster Wheel

Who wants to put their dog in a giant, unsafe looking hamster wheel or bake their cat... more

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Paralyzed on the Water: Hooked on Danger

Although they're 155 miles from one crew's rescue emergency, Skipper Chug... more

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Sustainable Seafood Purchases Surge In The UK

Sustainable seafood purchases have surged in the UK after being encouraged by a new... more

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Traveling Across the World for Vanguard in 2011

My endless curiosity and wild pursuits have landed me in various, odd places... more

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Tough Action Urged to Protect Bluefin Tuna

With the Atlantic bluefin tuna being fished to extinction, environment groups have... more

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Modern-day slavery: horror fishing for Europe

Shocking evidence of conditions akin to slavery on trawlers that provide fish for... more

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Reel Fishing funny comedy celebrity show- season 1 highlights

Reel fishing comedy celebrity fishing show! Big fish and big fun, hilarious! Join us... more

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TUNA + CATS = NO!!!!!

Should I or shouldn't I feed tuna to my cats? http://opcatchat.blogspot.com/

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From the NY Times Magazine (June 21, 2010)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/magazine/27Tuna-t.html

Tuna's End

In the international waters south of Malta, the Greenpeace vessels Rainbow Warrior and Arctic Sunrise deployed eight inflatable Zodiacs and skiffs into the azure surface of the Mediterranean. Protesters aboard donned helmets and took up DayGlo flags and plywood shields. With the organization’s observation helicopter hovering above, the pilots of the tiny boats hit their throttles, hurtling the fleet forward to stop what they viewed as an egregious environmental crime. It was a high-octane updating of a familiar tableau, one that anyone who has followed Greenpeace’s Save the Whales adventures of the last 35 years would have recognized. But in the waters off Malta there was not a whale to be seen.

What was in the water that day was a congregation of Atlantic bluefin tuna, a fish that when prepared as sushi is one of the most valuable forms of seafood in the world. It’s also a fish that regularly journeys between America and Europe and whose two populations, or “stocks,” have both been catastrophically overexploited. The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, one of only two known Atlantic bluefin spawning grounds, has only intensified the crisis. By some estimates, there may be only 9,000 of the most ecologically vital megabreeders left in the fish’s North American stock, enough for the entire population of New York to have a final bite (or two) of high-grade otoro sushi. The Mediterranean stock of bluefin, historically a larger population than the North American one, has declined drastically as well. Indeed, most Mediterranean bluefin fishing consists of netting or “seining” young wild fish for “outgrowing” on tuna “ranches.” Which was why the Greenpeace craft had just deployed off Malta: a French fishing boat was about to legally catch an entire school of tuna, many of them undoubtedly juveniles.

Oliver Knowles, a 34-year-old Briton who was coordinating the intervention, had told me a few days earlier via telephone what the strategy was going to be. “These fishing operations consist of a huge purse-seining vessel and a small skiff that’s quite fast,” Knowles said. A “purse seine” is a type of net used by industrial fishing fleets, called this because of the way it draws closed around a school of fish in the manner of an old-fashioned purse cinching up around a pile of coins. “The skiff takes one end of the net around the tuna and sort of closes the circle on them,” Knowles explained. “That’s the key intervention point. That’s where we have the strong moral mandate.”

But as the Zodiacs approached the French tuna-fishing boat Jean-Marie Christian VI, confusion engulfed the scene. As anticipated, the French seiner launched its skiffs and started to draw a net closed around the tuna school. Upon seeing the Greenpeace Zodiacs zooming in, the captain of the Jean-Marie Christian VI issued a call. “Mayday!” he shouted over the radio. “Pirate attack!” Other tuna boats responded to the alert and arrived to help. The Greenpeace activists identified themselves over the VHF, announcing they were staging a “peaceful action.”

Aboard one Zodiac, Frank Hewetson, a 20-year Greenpeace veteran who in his salad days as a protester scaled the first BP deepwater oil rigs off Scotland, tried to direct his pilot toward the net so that he could throw a daisy chain of sandbags over its floating edge and allow the bluefin to escape. But before Hewetson could deploy his gear, a French fishing skiff rammed his Zodiac. A moment later Hewetson was dragged by the leg toward the bow. “At first I thought I’d been lassoed,” Hewetson later told me from his hospital bed in London. “But then I looked down. ” A fisherman trying to puncture the Zodiac had swung a three-pronged grappling hook attached to a rope into the boat and snagged Hewetson clean through his leg between the bone and the calf muscle. (Using the old language of whale protests, Greenpeace would later report to Agence France-Presse that Hewetson had been “harpooned.”)

“Ma jambe! Ma jambe!” Hewetson cried out in French, trying to signal to the fisherman to slack off on the rope. The fisherman, according to Hewetson, first loosened it and then reconsidered and pulled it tight again. Eventually Hewetson was able to get enough give in the rope to yank the hook free. Elsewhere, fishermen armed with gaffs and sticks sank another Zodiac and, according to Greenpeace’s Knowles, fired a flare at the observation helicopter. At a certain point, the protesters made the decision to break off the engagement. “We have currently pulled back from the seining fleet,” Knowles e-mailed me shortly afterward, “to regroup and develop next steps.” Bertrand Wendling, the executive director of the tuna-fishing cooperative of which the Jean-Marie Christian VI was a part, called the Greenpeace protest “without doubt an act of provocation” in which “valuable work tools” were damaged.

(This story is much, much longer and continues at the link!)From the NY Times Magazine (June 21, 2010)... more

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Activists 'liberate' 800 bluefin tuna: Sea Shepherd

Environmental activists from the Sea Shepherd group said Friday they had... more

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Weekly Mulch: BP Oil Spill Stalls Climate Bill

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger “There’s a dead dolphin on... more

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BP Spills Coffee [video]

What would happen if BP spilled a bunch of coffee on their conference room table?... more

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Gulf Oil Spill Disaster: Spawn of the Living Dead for Atlantic Bluefin Tuna?

A recently published study, intended to provide data to commercial fisheries in the... more

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Care for Some Crude With Your Sushi? [video]

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the worst environmental disaster the US has faced.... more

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