Tuna
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Bluefin Tuna Reporting Requirements
RFA is reminding all private anglers and charter/headboats who fishing for under HMS Angling and Charter/Headboat permits that they are required to report the catch of landed and dead discarded bluefin tuna within 24 hours of landing or the end of each trip. NOAA Fisheries implemented this reporting require three years to comply with the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) recommendations that contracting parties must report both landings and dead discards.
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Prime Bluefin Tuna Brings $632,000
The 74.2 million yen winning bid for the prized but imperiled species was the second highest ever after a record 155.4 million yen bid in 2013 at the annual New Year auction at the famed Tsukiji market.
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Pacific Bluefin Tuna Petition Reaction | American Sportfishing Association
Tuna lifecycle. Part of a series of drawings made by the author for the Educational Development Center. Ministry of Education, Male', Maldives Credit: Xavier Romero-Frias
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Most But Not All Tuna Catch from Abundant Stocks
WASHINGTON — The following was released by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation: The global commercial catch of tuna — a valuable, natural protein food source — reached 5 million tons in 2014, an increase from 4.6 million in 2013, according to the ISSF Tuna Stock Status Update – 2016 (Status of the World Fisheries for Tuna) report just published by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF). The report can be downloaded from the ISSF Status of the Stocks page. Tuna accounts for approximately 6% of the world's 81.5-million-ton marine catch.
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Commercial Fishing Ban May Be Only Option to Save Pacific Bluefin Tuna
The Pew Charitable Trusts is calling for a two year ban on the commercial fishing of Pacific bluefin tuna as a last resort to save the species.
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Bluefin Tuna Show Early off N.C. Outer Banks
Bluefin tuna season is here again, traditionally running from November through March, sometimes into April, and there have already been landings in Carteret County, as well as some anecdotal reports of the prized commercial fish showing up off the Outer Banks.
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U.S. Fishermen Get Cameras to Track Bluefin Tuna
Atlantic bluefin tuna are among the most valuable fish in the ocean. Keeping populations sustainable relies, in good part, on tracking how many bluefin are commercially caught, landed, and released.
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