As industrial boats prepare to set sail on Saturday for the annual Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing season on the Mediterranean Sea, WWF is urging all fishing countries to keep the fishery closed this ...

Sadly, bluefin remains on the menu in some restaurants. The sushi market keeps prices for tuna high — a single tuna sold for $177,000 in a fish market in 2010 — and encourages illegal and unreported ...

In partnership with skippers and anglers, the University of Exeter has attached high-tech tags to tuna to track their movements and aid conservation. Alongside recreational fishing for bluefin ...

Yellowfin, bigeye, bluefin, albacore, and skipjack tuna are among the commercially valuable species. It is extremely hard to predict how much money you'll make from tuna fishing due to its ...

Barcelona, Spain: According to WWF, two large non-Mediterranean fleets have been spotted in some of the main Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishing grounds over the last two weeks Barcelona, Spain: ...

Operation Tarantelo was launched when the Spanish Guardia Civil noted irregularities involving bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean Sea. Further investigations uncovered that quantities of ...

yellowfin and three species of bluefin tuna - they can be found in tropical and temperate regions of all oceans. Tunas are caught by purse seine, long-lines, gillnet, pole & line and handline from ...

Bluefin tuna have been eaten by humans for centuries. However, in the 1970s, demand and prices for large bluefins soared worldwide, particularly in Japan, and commercial fishing operations found ...