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NEWS ABOUT: bluefin tuna

bluefin tuna stories: 6 news summaries

(Newser) - You might suspect a sushi restaurant that doesn’t specify what sort of tuna you’re eating of trying to pawn off an inferior species. Not so. Researchers using novel DNA barcoding technology found that though nearly a third of tuna sold in 31 US restaurants was the prized—and... More »

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endangered species • FDA • restaurant • delicacy • seafood • dining • sushi • Food and Drug Administration • overfishing • bluefin tuna • truth in advertising • DNA barcoding


 Forget Fur: 
 New Celeb 
 Cause Is Food 

Overfishing, too much meat are the top causes

Jun 14, 09 3:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Protesting fur is so last decade. Celebrities are now championing their favorite food-related causes, whether it's Paul McCartney asking Brits to cut back on meat, Jamie Oliver refusing to serve endangered bluefin, or celebs lining up to publicize a new film about overfishing, the Guardian reports. Why now? Government inaction... More »

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PETA • sustainability • overfishing • bluefin tuna • commercial fishing • Food, Inc. • The End of the Line

De Niro at Center of Celeb Food Fight

Actor's restaurant chain causes uproar with use of endangered tuna

Jun 5, 09 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Celebrities including Sienna Miller, Charlize Theron, and Sting are joining the food fight against famed restaurant Nobu, the New York Post reports. Activists are demanding the Japanese eatery, co-owned by Robert De Niro, remove endangered bluefin tuna from its pricey menu so they can “dine with a clear conscience.... More »

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entertainment • Robert De Niro • celebrity • Nobu • sushi • Sienna Miller • Nobuyuki Matsuhisa • bluefin tuna • Woody Harrelson

(Newser) - Japanese scientists are racing to keep bluefin tuna from dying out by inducing another fish to give birth to them, GlobalPost reports. Overfishing has already decimated bluefin and convinced many diners, supermarket and sushi chains to avoid the fish. Now Japan is paying a Tokyo University team to replenish bluefin... More »

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endangered species • Japan • sushi • bluefin tuna

EU Trims
Tuna Catch,
Experts Warn:
'Not Enough'

New quotas well above sustainable limit

Nov 29, 08 2:05 AM CST
(Newser) - The European Commission completed a deal this week cutting back on the fishing of bluefin tuna, the Economist reports, but not sharply enough to save the species, scientists argue. The deal gradually reduces the legal catch from 28,500 tons this year to 19,950 tons in 2010—but conservationists... More »

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tuna • fish • fishing • European Commission • overfishing • fishery • bluefin tuna

 Bluefin Swim Toward Extinction 

Politicking produces bad management of big tuna

Nov 1, 08 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 limit should long have been... More »

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Atlantic Ocean • tuna • fishing • overfishing • fishery • bluefin tuna

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