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Bloomberg (September 22)

2017/ 09/ 24 by jd in Global News

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s “preliminary recommendation is to let commercial fishing resume in the Pacific Remote Islands and in the nearby Rose Atoll Marine National Monument. Yet commercial tuna fishing is precisely what put these ecosystems under pressure. To thrive, the creatures need to be undisturbed, and this protection has to extend far enough to allow them to roam…. The Trump administration is wrong to be contemplating this backward step.”

 

New York Times (April 10)

2011/ 04/ 12 by jd in Global News

“Time is running out” for bluefin tuna, but an ingenious new hook may provide some relief. Commercial fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico, where the catch of bluefin is illegal, will now be required to use thinner hooks. The hooks still support yellowfin tuna and swordfish, but give way under the massive weight of a bluefin, thus preventing inadvertent bluefin catches. In just the last decade, the number of bluefin in the Atlantic and Mediterranean fell by over 60%. The New York Times lays the blame for the dwindling bluefin population on “vast overfishing fueled by Japan’s insatiable sushi appetite” and advocates a worldwide ban on the sale of bluefin to help stocks recover.

 

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