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

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

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

In fact, the swordfish caught by the world's leading swordfish harvesters Japan and Taiwan is primarily bycatch from tuna fisheries. In effect, the value of the bycatch fish may exceed the targeted fish.

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.

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.

And when I see that tuna this is my favorite view I begin to wonder how did this fish solve the longitude problem before we did?

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.

Targeting highly migratory predatory fish species including tuna and swordfish, industrial longlines also catch or kill as many as 4.4 million sea turtles, billfish, sharks, marine mammals and seabirds.

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.

Longlines are also one of the main threats to the survival of sharks and billfish. Recent studies have documented the rapid decline of large predatory fish species such as billfish, sharks and tuna.

Japanese people like to eat tuna.

Methyl mercury bio accumulates up the marine food chain to create high concentrations in predatory species of fish such as shark, swordfish and tuna, as well as marine mammals such as whales, dolphins and porpoises.

The U.S. and EU are two of the largest global import markets for tuna. Because new EU rules allow testing imported fish for mercury levels and other contaminants, import restrictions and declining demands may soon result.

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

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.

But then it warms up, and the tuna pops in, gets some fish, maybe comes back to home base, goes in again and then comes back to winter down there in North Carolina and then on to the Bahamas.

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 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.

Commercial sector The commercial sector of the fishing industry comprises the following chain Commercial fishing and fish farming which produce the fish Fish processing which produce the fish products Marketing of the fish products World production Fish are harvested by commercial fishing and aquaculture.

Among fish are the barbel, bream and African yellow fish.

When illegally caught fish reach the global marketplace, fish prices fall and less fish are left to catch legally.

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.

Fish, please.

Fish eyes

Fish Eyes

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.

Haddock is the predominant fish of choice in Scotland in a fish supper.

Fish and shellfish It is unsafe to store fish or shellfish without preservation.

Not for fish.

Kampot fish market

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.

This does not include billions of fish caught illegally nor unwanted fish accidentally caught and discarded, nor does it count fish impaled on hooks as bait.

Fish is cheap today.

It's not a fish.