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Bluefin tuna fetches record $396k in Tokyo auction

Sean Ecker — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:39:57 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A 342kg bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido was bought for Yen 32.49m in the first such auction of the season in Tokyo 5 January. The buyers were an upscale Tokyo sushi restaurant and a chain of Hong Kong restaurants. In 2001 the same buyers paid Yen 20.2m for a 202kg [...]

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Tiger 2010 winner, bluefin tuna loser, fish in desperate straits

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:46:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Tigers have a hope of surviving, at the end of 2010, but bluefin tuna could well disappear from the face of the Earth and its cousins in the fish world are not in good shape, with one in five species threatened. These are some of the conclusions of the IUCN (International [...]

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Business in Europe backs move to save bluefin tuna

Sean Ecker — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:00:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland and Paris, France (GenevaLunch) – Major European businesses are calling for a significant change in the way bluefin tuna is caught and marketed in a push to rescue the species from collapse. The call comes in a manifesto 24 November with Switzerland-based WWF which will be presented to Fabio Hazin, president of International [...]

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Bluefin tuna at heart of $4bn black market

Sean Ecker — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:55:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The black market in bluefin tuna spans three continents and is estimated to be worth $4 billion annually in a recently released report by a group of investigative journalists. And the European fishing industry blatantly violates its own management rules by continuing to overfish the bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean, according [...]

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Bluefin tuna’s last stand: Cites votes against a ban

Sean Ecker — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:45:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com [WWF video] Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Atlantic bluefin tuna’s last reasonable chance for survival as a species has taken a beating: its defenders have been defeated in a critical vote at a Cites meeting in Doha, Qatar. A clear majority of nations of the Cites pact of countries, which regulates trade in endangered species, [...]

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Swiss back bluefish tuna ban

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:21:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern / Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland has agreed to back demands for a ban on bluefin tuna, a favourite of sushi diners, when Geneva-based Cites meets in Doha, Qatar, 13-25 March. Cites is the inter-government Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and 175 governments will be sending representatives [...]

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Bluefin tuna on menu for Cites trade ban

Sean Ecker — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:29:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A complete ban on the trade and commercialization of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna is to be discussed by the 175 member countries of Cites that meet in Doha in March, according to a statement by the group Friday 5 February. Cites is the Convention on International Trade in [...]

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Bluefin tuna given no respite by fisheries body

Sean Ecker — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:57:21 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Gland, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A ban on fishing the bluefin tuna in the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, stocks of which are at their lowest historical levels, was not approved by the body in charge of managing the fish, announced WWF International, from Recife, Brazil Sunday 15 November. The International Commission for the Conservation [...]

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Last chance for bluefin tuna: ICCAT meets in Recife, Brazil

Sean Ecker — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:10:17 +0000

GenevaLunch.com WWF International has called on the International Convention for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) to impose a ban on catching the bluefin tuna, as well as a ban on trading in it. ICCAT is holding its 21st regular meeting in Recife, Brazil Monday 9 November. It meets to decide on whether to heed [...]

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