The vast majority of Americans have never seen a bluefin tuna cruising the Atlantic Ocean. For many of us, all tunas are the same – flakey, fishy mash that comes readily accessible in little grocery store cans. In this context, imagining tuna scarcity would be next to impossible – there are whole shelves of tuna…
Head’s up! There is a NEW St Maarten Fishing Tournament with over 5,000 in Prizes The Annual Island Water World Fishing Tournament will be held April 13, 2014 at Bobby’s Marina in Philipsburg, in front of the Island Water World Store. The event is organized in conjunction with the St Maarten Sportfishing Organization and open to everybody….
On March 18, 2010, in Doha, Qatar, the proposal to ban was defeated, leaving the world’s decimated Bluefin stocks once again at the mercy of ICCAT’s habitual failures. The voting members of CITES issued the Bluefin Tuna’s express ticket to extinction
Status of the endangered species, the Bluefin Tuna.
Although there is still much to learn about fish migration patterns, as well as where and when certain fish species reproduce, the Bluefin tuna is one of the most studied. Over 40 years of research on the Bluefin has produced a wealth of information and makes the Bluefin a classic example of how far and…