Bluefin Tuna

The Bottom Line: A Short Season for Big Fish

Lee Crockett | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Fishing, International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, Pew Environment Group, Mediterranean, Overfishing, Bluefin Tuna, Green News
Lee Crockett

This year's purse-seine fishing for bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea kicked off this week, but don't blink or you might miss it.

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'Wicked Tuna': Fishing Boat Captain Is Wicked Mad

Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Reality TV, Canada Tv, Video, National Geographic, Gloucester Mass, Tv Replay, Fishing, Tuna Fishing, Wicked Tuna, National Geographic Channel, Bluefin Tuna, TV News

On "Wicked Tuna" (Sun., 10 p.m. ET on National Geographic) the crew of the Odysea got into a standoff with another boat after the bigger vessel snagge...

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The Bottom Line: Fishing for Giants

Lee Crockett | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Species Conservation, New England Fisheries, Pew Environment Group, National Geographic, Iccat, Bluefin Tuna, Sustainable Fishing, Wicked Tuna, Video, Green News
Lee Crockett

Promoting selective fishing that wastes little ocean wildlife is one key to the bluefin's recovery. Fishermen who use rods and reels, such as those profiled in Wicked Tuna, can specifically target the species and release undersized fish alive.

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Nat Geo's Controversial New TV Show, Wicked Tuna, Debuts

Carl Safina | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Nat Geo TV Bluefin Tuna, National Geographic, Nat Geo, Fish, Fishing, National Geographic Television, Wicked Tuna, Tuna Fishing, Overfishing, Bluefin Tuna, Green News
Carl Safina

Contrary to worst fears, the show's first episode did not glorify the fishing. Contrary to romanticizing the fishery, I felt, the show can make one feel that this isn't an attractive way to try to turn a profit.

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The Bottom Line: Shifting Gears in the Gulf

Lee Crockett | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Pew Environment Group, Commercial Fishing, Longlining, Overfishing, Bluefin Tuna, Sailfish, Gulf Mexico Fishing, Video, Green News
Lee Crockett

For decades, fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico have used surface longlines to catch swordfish and yellowfin tuna, a method catches and kills large numbers of rare and endangered ocean wildlife, which are usually thrown overboard dead or dying.

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WATCH: New Zealand Man's Tuna Could Be World's Largest

HuffPost Weird News | David Moye | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Video, Nathan Adams, World's Largest Tuna, New Zealand, Weird New Zealand, Weird Photos & Videos, World's Largest Fish, Animals in the News, World Records, Bluefin Tuna, Giant Fish, Weird News News

New Zealand fisherman Nathan Adams will never have to say "You should have seen the one that got away" ever again. That's because it is going to be...

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The Bottom Line: Tracking Tuna in the Cloud

Lee Crockett | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Pew Environment Group, The Bottom Line, Fisheries, Lee Crockett, Bluefin Tuna, Illegal Fishing, Iccat, Green News
Lee Crockett

The future health of Atlantic bluefin tuna populations will be enhanced by improving the ability to track the amount of fish caught each year.

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Will National Geographic TV's Wicked Tuna Be Better Than Advertised?

Carl Safina | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Wicked Tuna, Bluefin Tuna, Nat Geo, National Geographic Wicked Tuna, Ocean Conservation, National Geographic Channel, Tuna Fishing, TV Canada, Green News
Carl Safina

National Geographic is committed to the big picture. Conservation concerns will be part of the project. That's their promise so let's take them at their word.

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WATCH: Giant Tuna Gets Butchered Like A Boss

Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Hideo Kuribara, Kindai, Sushi, Video, Bluefin, Kindai Bluefin, Del Posto, Bluefin Tuna, Food News

Only a handful of Kindai tuna get flown to the U.S. every week. The Kindai is farmed from bluefin eggs in Japan, a process that some call more sustain...

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Bluefin Tuna: New Record Price for Carcass Further Devalues the Fish

Carl Safina | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Sushi, Fisheries, Overfishing, Sashimi, Bluefin Tuna, Bluefin Tuna Value, Bluefin Tuna Endangered, Bluefin Tuna Tokyo, Bluefin Tuna Price, Bluefin Tuna Extinction, Green News
Carl Safina

Here's how I can tell if an environmental news story has permeated the public consciousness: my 86 year-old mother phones to tell me about it.

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Why Did One Japanese Bluefin Tuna Sell For $736,000

Corbin Hiar | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Sushi, Japan, Japan Earthquake, Fukushima, Japan Tsunami, World Wildlife Fund, Center for Public Integrity, Bluefin Tuna, Iwatch News, Green News
Corbin Hiar

While the bluefin tuna is widely acknowledged to be a threatened fish, the price paid Thursday for one 593-pound catch is more a show of nationalism and marketing saavy than a sign of how endangered the tuna has become.

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Bluefin Tuna Sells For Twice The Price Of A Rolls-Royce

AP | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Video, Bluefin Tuna Record, Bluefin Tuna Japan, Tuna Record, Tuna Japan, Tuna, Tsukiji Market, Japan, Bluefin Tuna, Food News

The Associated Press reports: TOKYO -- This tuna is worth savoring: It cost nearly three-quarters of a million dollars. The bluefin tuna caught off...

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10 Endangered Species Which Desperately Need Our Help In 2012

Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Sumatran Tiger, Endangered Species 2011, Video, Critically Endangered Species, Mountain Gorilla, Orangutans, Endangered Species, Animals, Javan Rhino, Bluefin Tuna, Snow Leopard, Green News

Across the globe, hundreds of animal species face a grave and increasing threat of extinction. While many of these animals may live in remote location...

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How The BP Oil Spill Has Affected Bluefin Tuna

AP | By SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Tuna, BP Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, BP Oil Spill Bluefin Tuna, Bluefin Tuna, BP Oil Spill Tuna, Video, Food News

WASHINGTON -- Last year's BP oil spill probably won't push the troubled bluefin tuna population in the Gulf of Mexico over the edge as some scientists...

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Rupert Murray's Recently Awarded Documentary: The End of the Line

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: End of the Line, Director, Film, Puma Creative, Filmmaker, British, Rupert Murray, Puma, Extinction, Environment, Sustainability, Sushi, Food, Oceans, Fishing, Bluefin Tuna, Impact, Video, Green News
Constantin Bjerke

Rupert Murray's film tells the grim story of the catastrophic decline of global fish stock due to mass overfishing of our oceans and seas over the last 50 years.

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ICCAT: Time to Tackle What's Really in the Net

Lee Crockett | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, Pew Environment Group, Turkey, Environment, Science, Oceans, Tuna, Diplomacy, Overfishing, Bluefin Tuna, World News
Lee Crockett

What's in a name? If you're talking about ICCAT -- the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas -- so much is contained in that one acronym.

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Half The Fish Sold In Boston Restaurants Is Fraudulently Mislabeled

The Boston Globe | By Jenn Abelson and Beth Daley | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Mislabeled Fish, Fish Mislabeling, Sustainability, Fish Species Names, Report on Fish Mislabeling, Fish Labeling, Sustainable Fish, Bluefin Tuna, Fish Boston Globe, Boston Globe Dna Fish, Boston Globe Fish Dna Story, Boston Fish Mislabeling, Food News

The sliver of raw fish sold as white tuna at Skipjack's in Foxborough was actually escolar, an oily, cheaper species banned in Japan because it can ma...

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Overfishing 101: Counting Fish

Lee Crockett | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Pew Environment Group, Bluefin, Bycatch, Iccat, Lee-Crockett, Tuna, Overfishing, Bluefin Tuna, Video, Green News
Lee Crockett

How heavy is 35,000 metric tons? For starters, it's the weight of 193 jumbo jets or 2,917 African elephants. It's also the amount of Atlantic bluefin tuna that have exceeded the official catch quota in the Mediterranean Sea in the past two years alone.

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Study Finds Twice As Much Bluefin Traded As Quotas Allow

AP | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Tuna Fish Quotas, Video, Bluefin Quotas, Bluefin, Tuna, European Fishing, Fishing, Tuna Fishing, Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Bluefin Tuna Fishing, Bluefin Tuna, Food News

BRUSSELS -- An international scientific study says well over twice as much of the rare eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna is traded than catch quotas allow...

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Overfishing 101: Getting Serious About Illegal Tuna Fishing in the Mediterranean

Lee Crockett | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Pew Environment Group, European Union, Driftnets, Italy, Tuna, Illegal-Fishing, Overfishing, Bluefin Tuna, Illegal Fishing, Iccat, Green News
Lee Crockett

Held on the sea's surface or just below with floating devices, driftnets can be miles long. Depending on the size of the mesh, they can entangle anything that happens to swim nearby, including sea turtles, whales, swordfish, and tuna.

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Overfishing 101: Protecting Tuna With Technology

Lee Crockett | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, Pew Environment Group, Science, Illegal-Fishing, Bluefin Tuna, Green News
Lee Crockett

Given the worth of each tuna, it's only logical to invest in an electronic documentation system today that could help keep these awe-inspiring fish around for fishermen, conservationists, seafood lovers and scientists for generations to come.

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The Gulf's Ocean and Inland Fish Face Multiple Threats

Susan Buchanan | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Topminnows, u.s. Endangered Species Act, Mussels, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Louisiana State University, Pearl River, Wildearth Guardians, Louisiana Dept. Of Wildlife and Fisheries, Japan, Sturgeon, Bluefin Tuna, Green News
Susan Buchanan

Decades of commercial overfishing, along with oil and gas exploration and refining, hurricanes and last year's BP spill are among the misfortunes facing fish in the Gulf.

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Overfishing 101: Creative Ways to Protect Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

Lee Crockett | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, Pew Environment Group, Sea Turtles, Video, Longlining, Gulf of Mexico, Overfishing, Bluefin Tuna, Green News
Lee Crockett

Many people have heard of bluefin tuna, even if they haven't eaten it. Traditional bluefin fisheries used to be sustainable, but loosely regulated industrial-scale fishing changed everything for this amazing fish.

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The Last Chance For Bluefin Tuna

Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Bluefin Tuna Farms, Bluefin Tuna Mitsubushi, Bluefin Tuna Ban, Fish, Fishing, Overfishing, Bluefin Tuna, Tuna Extinction, Food News

Bluefin tuna certainly faces severe existential threats. That much is no longer in doubt. Sure, Pacific bluefins are not officially endangered -- but ...

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'Green News Report' - July 21, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Nasa, Green Jobs, Fracking, Space Shuttle, United Nations, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Business, Green News Report, Pollution, Pipeline, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Drought, Marcellus Shale, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, Clean Water Act, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Global Warming Deniers, Bluefin Tuna, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Alaska, Gasoline, Fukushima, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Ohio, Utilities, Environmentalism, Energy Efficiency, Pennsylvania, Koch Brothers, Carbon Tax, BRAD BLOG, Famine, Mercury, Green News, Heat, Food, Koch Industries, Fox News, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Somalia, Hydraulic Fracturing, Unicef, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Japan, Extreme Weather, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Deadly h...

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