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Tuna at risk due to over-consumption. Will you stop ordering blue fin tuna at sushi restaurants?
Michael July 28, 2008 06:28:34
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The blue fin tuna is at risk of being extinct since Asia and now the western world can't stop eating enough sushi! How much to do you care about this fish?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080727/sc_afp/eufishenvironment...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080727/sc_afp/eufishenvironment...
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No, I love blue fin tuna sushi and sashimi too much to stop eating it!
I don't eat enough sushi/tuna to make a difference. I hope that by creating a demand for the product, businesses will realize the need to protect the fish, increase prices if necessary and increase supply all in the name of greed. The people who make a living because of the demand for the fish won't let it join the list of extinct animals... right?View thread

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actually I think this pic just did it for me. kind of reminds me of the buffalos.
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No, I love blue fin tuna sushi and sashimi too much to stop eating it!
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Yes, long live the blue fin tuna. I will stop eating this fish.
If it weren't JUST tuna I would assume that my tastes were changing, but I eat plenty of other raw fish in sushi and they don't taste funny. *shrug*
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No, I love blue fin tuna sushi and sashimi too much to stop eating it!
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I think the easiest way is to put a ban on fishing for blue-fin for a few years...
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I guess those scientists that said we should eat more fish and said there were plenty of fish in the ocean to feed the world were wrong.HHMM
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I try not to eat meat of any kind when possible.
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Yellowfin Tuna
Yellowfin tuna is found throughout many of the world’s oceans. Not all fisheries use environmentally friendly fishing methods however, and some populations are in poor shape.
Consumer Note
Yellowfin, a staple of the tuna canning industry, most often appears in the market as canned light tuna. It’s also known as ahi when sold fresh and frozen, and is commonly found on sushi menus.
Health Alert
Environmental Defense Fund has issued a consumption advisory for longline-caught yellowfin tuna due to elevated levels of mercury. (No consumption advisories are listed for troll/pole-caught yellowfin as these gear methods catch younger tuna with lower mercury levels.)
Summary
Although yellowfin matures and reproduces quickly, it is being overfished in many parts of the world.
Most yellowfin destined for the can is caught by purse seine fleets. Purse seines, even when “dolphin-safe,” can take a heavy bycatch of unwanted fishes and other animals (including young tunas, sharks, and other pelagic fishes). This includes methods of purse-seining that attract fish using ‘fish aggregating devices’ (FADs). When possible, it is best to buy yellowfin caught with troll or pole-...
http://www.montereybayaquariu...
Yellowfin Tuna
Yellowfin tuna is found throughout many of the world’s oceans. Not all fisheries use environmentally friendly fishing methods however, and some populations are in poor shape.
Consumer Note
Yellowfin, a staple of the tuna canning industry, most often appears in the market as canned light tuna. It’s also known as ahi when sold fresh and frozen, and is commonly found on sushi menus.
Health Alert
Environmental Defense Fund has issued a consumption advisory for longline-caught yellowfin tuna due to elevated levels of mercury. (No consumption advisories are listed for troll/pole-caught yellowfin as these gear methods catch younger tuna with lower mercury levels.)
Summary
Although yellowfin matures and reproduces quickly, it is being overfished in many parts of the world.
Most yellowfin destined for the can is caught by purse seine fleets. Purse seines, even when “dolphin-safe,” can take a heavy bycatch of unwanted fishes and other animals (including young tunas, sharks, and other pelagic fishes). This includes methods of purse-seining that attract fish using ‘fish aggregating devices’ (FADs). When possible, it is best to buy yellowfin caught with troll or pole-and-line (a form of hook-and-line) because there is little bycatch.
When tuna is caught by longlining, much other marine life is caught too, including threatened and endangered sea turtles, seabirds and sharks. Since there are no integrated international laws to reduce bycatch, international longline fleets are contributing heavily to the long-term decline of some of these threatened or endangered species—we recommend that consumers avoid yellowfin caught by international longliners. Due to strict bycatch regulations in the U.S. and a healthy population in the Atlantic, longline-caught yellowfin from the U.S. Atlantic fleet is the only exception.
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sometimes only tuna...
Yes, long live the blue fin tuna. I will stop eating this fish.
No, I love blue fin tuna sushi and sashimi too much to stop eating it!
any idea how many different types of asians are out there?!?!
Japanese isn't even the majority number of asians...
Chinese along isn't the entire group of asians either..