We've actually taken a sliver of the ocean, put it behind glass, and we together have put bluefin tuna and yellowfin tuna on display.

The European population and North African the Eastern bluefin tuna is fished at tremendous levels 50,000 tons over the last decade almost every year.

Member of the international arbitral tribunals in the Rainbow Warrior (1990) (New Zealand v France) and Southern Bluefin Tuna (2000) (Australia and New Zealand v Japan) cases.

In 1999, Greenpeace published a report revealing that the amount of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean had decreased by over 80 in the previous 20 years and government scientists warn that without immediate action the stock will collapse.

I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls tomorrow's child, asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time.

Now bluefin, in general, goes to one place Japan.

The skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis , is a medium sized perciform fish in the tuna family, Scombridae.

Japanese people like to eat tuna.

Caught tuna are swung on board, by two to three fishermen if the tuna is big, or with an automated swinging mechanism.

Asian Development Bank, The role of tuna fisheries in the national economies, date unknown, available at http www.adb.org Documents Reports Tuna tuna08.pdf.

Barbara Block Tagging tuna in the deep ocean

Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission, La Jolla, California, United States

C. Dumas, 2002, p. 5 and Asian Development Bank, The role of tuna fisheries in the national economies, date unknown, available at http www.adb.org Documents Reports Tuna tuna08.pdf.

They're coming together. That could be tuna sex and there it is.

The varieties landed are tuna, bonito, mackerel, squid, shark, lobster and shrimp.

For that, bluefin have been given a status equivalent to tigers, to lions, to certain African elephants and to pandas.

For example, the longline fleet in the Indo Pacific is flooding Japan with low grade tuna, causing prices to decrease while continuing to take relatively large numbers of tuna from the ocean.

This was the approach adopted by the GATT Panel Report, United States Restrictions on Imports of Tuna ( USA Tuna II ), DS29 R, 16 June 1994, unadopted, 33 ILM (1994) 839, para. 5.19.

And yet, the type of fishing going on today, with pens, with enormous stakes, is really wiping bluefin ecologically off the planet.

It s made of peceto (veal), topped with a sauce of tuna, mayonnaise and anchovies.

There is especially high demand in foreign markets for tuna, shark, lobster and shrimp.

It is possible that we will not be able to eat tuna in the future.

Tuna and swordfish fisheries are especially petroleum hungry, with energy consumption three times the average.

And then, better yet, we've got our own version of tuna whisperers, our own Chuck Farwell, Alex Norton, who can take a big tuna and in one motion, put it into an envelope of water, so that we can actually work with the tuna and learn the techniques it takes to not injure this fish who never sees a boundary in the open sea.

In 1999, a private company built a tuna loining plant with more than 400 employees, mostly women.

Long line fishing of tuna is also viable with foreign vessels from China operated in the 1990s.

As awareness grows, levels of consumption of large predatory fish such as tuna and swordfish are dropping.

Tuna are ocean athletes fast, far ranging predators whose habits we're just beginning to understand. Marine biologist Barbara Block fits tuna with tracking tags that record unprecedented amounts of data about these gorgeous, threatened fish and the ocean habitats they move through.

To that end and despite the fact that the export of tuna constitutes about 94 per cent of all export earnings of fish, Fiji has reduced the number of tuna fishing licenses issued annually from 103 in 2002 to 72 in 2005.

HC So the key thing to remember here is, we don't really care what this tuna really is.

This tag rides on the tuna, senses the environment around the tuna and actually will come off the fish, detach, float to the surface and send back to Earth orbiting satellites position data estimated by math on the tag, pressure data and temperature data.

We go in the tanks with the tuna we touch their naked skin it's pretty amazing. It feels wonderful.

Much of the fish is tuna transhipped from the South Pacific region on its way to the U.S. market.

They get returned, and when they get returned, here on a NASA numerical ocean you can see bluefin in blue go across their corridor, returning to the Western Pacific.

We can't see the corridors, and we can't see what it is that brings together a tuna, a leatherback and an albatross.

Fisheries are underdeveloped, with commercial fishing accounting for only a third of the total catch, most of it tuna exported to Japan.

When the veil of bubbles lifts every morning, we can actually see a community from the Pelagic ocean, one of the only places on Earth you can see giant bluefin swim by.

That's where the tuna wants to go it wants to forage on schools of herring but it can't get there. It's too cold.

Guam's port is a major trans shipment centre of the western Pacific and is equipped to move containerized bulk and tuna cargo efficiently.

BR So you see us here cutting up some watermelon. The idea with this is that we're going to eliminate tons of food miles, wasted energy, and overfishing of tuna by creating tuna, or any exotic produce or item from a very far away place, with local, organic produce so we have a watermelon from Wisconsin.

The warning advised that expectant, pregnant and nursing women and children should not eat any shark, swordfish or king mackerel due to high mercury levels. The advisory also included a caveat that women should eat no more than 12 ounces of light tuna a week and no more than six ounces a week of white tuna.

The result is whether you're looking at the West or the Eastern bluefin population, there's been tremendous decline on both sides, as much as 90 percent if you go back with your baseline to 1950.

Among the fisheries with the most inefficient edible protein return on investment, vessels targeting shrimp, tuna and swordfish are at the top of the list.

In the six weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration revised its mercury in fish warning, the sale of tuna fell by 9.3 percent.

The swordfish fishery was closed and the tuna fishery subject to time area closures due to high levels of sea turtle and sea bird bycatch.