Largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics.
1Governments have rejected trade bans for bluefin tuna and polar bears.
2Prices for bluefin tuna imported from other regions are much lower.
3The proposals include whether to list bluefin tuna as endangered.
4Angling Notes: The big bluefin tuna are on the move along the western coastline.
5But a red light is flashing over the bluefin tuna.
6President Nicolas Sarkozy said last year he favoured a clear trade ban on bluefin tuna.
7Monaco had proposed protecting bluefin tuna by listing it under appendix I of the CITES.
8Wasabi or Not to Be Until the 1970s, bluefin tuna was a literal trash fish.
9Resistance from Asian countries, particularly Japan, to ban trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna received most attention.
10But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
11For the first time, catch limits are being introduced for recreational fishers targeting southern bluefin tuna.
12Southern bluefin tuna are listed as critically endangered.
13France, Italy and Spain account for half of the world's total allowable catch of bluefin tuna.
14Last year, the European Commission accused France and Italy of breaching their quotas on bluefin tuna fishing.
15Inflate the price of bluefin tuna several fold, and you risk spurring demand to a threatening extent.
16He hopes to have a bluefin tuna flesh product (at the cellular level) available soon.