There'll be no o-toro tomoro'

We've been blogging a lot about bluefin tuna recently. Whether it's reports of mercury, or new data about bluefin populations, the bottom line is the same. We're fast running out of the ocean's lean supreme hunting machine. So there's good news from Europe, as major retailers announce their own boycott of Mediterranean-caught bluefin in attempt to draw attention to the overfishing crisis taking place in their backyard.

WWF is calling upon others to join the ban, until the situation is under control, with stricter annual limits set on the fishery. They were speaking out at the Seafood Choices Alliance annual Seafood Summit; a perfect platform to address industry leaders in the seafood arena, and especially those in Europe, as this year for the first time, the Summit is being held outside the U.S. in Barcelona, Spain.

Fishing for bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean may seem distant to us in the U.S., however, satellite tagging of these ocean voyagers show that they traverse the Atlantic ocean basin on a frequent basis, returning to the Med only to spawn. These same fish can be found spending their summers cruising the waters off the coast of North Carolina.

To learn more about the amazing migrations of bluefins in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, you can visit the Tag-A-Giant Foundation website, or the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) website.

Comments

[tunatamer]

Please help stop the commercial take of bluefin.I love to fish for tuna, but it has to be controlled