The booming tuna farming industry in the Mediterranean is spiralling out of control. WWF has left an international body on tuna farming practices for putting profit ahead of conservation. Gland, ...
Atlantic bluefin tuna used to be caught only relatively rarely, mainly by sports fishermen in North America. But this all changed in the 1950s when consumers of sushi, particularly in Japan, developed ...
La Asociacion de Naturalistas del Sureste (ANSE) in Southeast Murcia, Cartagena, Spain. Fishing tuna for the farms can be another form of excessive fishing- a form of fishing that can threaten wild ...
WWF today warned that a massive expansion in tuna farming threatens to decimate the already over-fished wild tuna in the Mediterranean, and called for better control of this harmful new trend. Gland, ...
Since 2014, Malta’s bluefin tuna production has soared by 242%, giving Malta an outsized influence on global markets, even as ...
KUMANO, Japan -- Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild. Is ...
VICTORIA (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi fisheries company Asmak is considering tuna-ranching in waters off the Seychelles archipelago, the head of the Seychelles Fishing Authority said on Thursday. The company ...