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Bluefin Swim Toward Extinction

Politicking produces bad management of big tuna

By Michael Roston, Newser User

Posted Nov 1, 2008 8:03 AM CDT

(Newser) – Bluefin tuna are disappearing from the Atlantic and Mediterranean because of overfishing and an ineffectual world agency that's failed in its sole mission of protecting the fish, the Economist reports. Up to 60,000 tons are hauled in each year, legally or otherwise, when the... Read full story »

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