It’s one of the biggest, fastest, and most beautiful fish in the sea. It has captured the imaginations of people from Homer to Salvador Dali. But end-times loom for the giant bluefin tuna, whose chances of survival were greatly diminished in late November by the international commission charged with its care.
It’s one of the biggest, fastest, and most beautiful fish in the sea.
It has captured the imaginations of people from Homer to Salvador Dali.
But end-times loom for the giant bluefin tuna, whose chances of
survival were greatly diminished in late November by the international
commission charged with its care.
Once again, that body – the International Commission for the
Conservation of Atlantic Tunas – refused to take strong action to
prevent the runaway overfishing of the giant bluefin tuna in its sole
remaining, yet rapidly disappearing, stronghold: the Mediterranean.
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One of the sea’s few elite warm-blooded fish, bluefin tuna can reach
three-quarters of a ton, swim at highway speeds, migrate across oceans,
and visit coasts of distant continents. They’re also the world’s most
valued fish (once they’re dead), and therein they hang by the tail.
Too valuable everywhere to be allowed to live anywhere, the giant
bluefin tuna may be worth more money to a person who kills one than any
other animal on the planet, elephants and rhinos included. A few years
ago, a single 444-pound bluefin tuna sold wholesale in Japan for
$173,600. One fish.
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