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Add Bluefin Tuna to the Endangered List ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, bluefin tuna, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 197 days ago - change.org
Populations of Bluefin Tuna are down by at least 85% since the industrial fishing era began. Bluefin quotas are currently at an unsustainably high 13,500 tons by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT),
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PLEASE TAKE ACTION!! Gulf Bluefin Need Help
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, environment, wildlife, bluefin tuna, wildanimals, protection, humans, animaladvocates )

Cal
- 471 days ago - secure3.convio.net
The BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico sent hundreds of millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico water column as the spawning season for bluefin reached its peak--Help GRN urge the National Marine Fisheries Service to take important ste
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Take Action! Protect Spawning Bluefin Tuna and Endangered Sea Turtles By Closing the Gulf Surface Longline Fishery
Animals  (tags: animals, protection, bluefin tuna, sea turtles, endangered, gulf of mexico )

Agnes
- 477 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
The Gulf of Mexico longline fishery kills both endangered sea turtles and imperiled bluefin tuna in their high seas migratory and spawning areas.
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Bluefin Tuna Gets Record Price ($396,000) at Japanese Auction
Animals  (tags: animals, wildanimals, tuna, bluefin tuna, fishing industry, environment, protection, animalcruelty, animalrights, animalwelfare )

Yrna
- 503 days ago - news.mongabay.com
On Tuesday, a 752-pound Pacific bluefin tuna was sold at Japanese auction for the highest price ever received for raw seafood - $396,000. The price tops the previous record by more than $100,000 and comes at a time when tuna populations around the world..
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Thousands Pledge to Boycott Restaurants Serving Bluefin Tuna
Animals  (tags: green, greenliving, Sustainabililty, activists, bluefin tuna, boycott, animalwelfare, animaladvocates, endangered, suffering, protection, humans )

Cal
- 540 days ago - news.mongabay.com
So far over 14,000 people have pledged to boycott eating bluefin tuna or visiting any restaurant that serves the imperiled species. The boycott, begun by US-conservation organization Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), is striving to raise awareness ab
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International Tuna Meeting Fails to Reduce Bluefin Quotas - Short-Term Profits Trump Sustainability
Animals  (tags: Bluefin Tuna, Extinction, Greed, Senseless Stupidity )

Ben
- 542 days ago - treehugger.com
Greed and mismanagement have taken priority over sustainability and common sense at this ICCAT meeting when it comes to Atlantic bluefin. After years of observing ICCAT and countless opportunities to do the right thing, it is clear to us that...
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Tell NOAA: We Need a Moratorium on Bluefin Tuna Fishing ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, bluefin tuna, fishing, environment, protection, wildlife, extinction )

Cher
- 589 days ago - change.org
Atlantic bluefin tuna have it rough: In recent years, a growing demand for sushi has pushed the fish's population numbers to plummet by as much as 85 percent. Despite their dwindling numbers, bluefin tuna are not listed as an endangered species,
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Sushi Restaurant Pulls Bluefin Tuna From the Menu
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, bluefin tuna, endangered, goodnews )

Maria
- 602 days ago - 8newsnow.com
The wildly popular Sushi Samba restaurant at Palazzo, has just taken one of its most popular, and most expensive, dishes off the menu. The "No Blue icon in menus means no bluefin tuna.
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Save the Endangered Bluefin Tuna! - TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, abuse, endangered, bluefin tuna, protection, wildlife )

Maria
- 682 days ago - theanimalrescuesite.com
Bluefin tuna stocks are being decimated due to the implications of the recent oil spill and to severe overfishing that's taking place in the Gulf of Mexico. One of the most sought-after fish in the oceans, the bluefin tuna now faces extinction mainly beca
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Taking Action, and Taking Blows, for Bluefin
Animals  (tags: conservation, animals, endangered, environment, extinction, protection, wildlife, bluefin tuna, Blue fin tuna, tuna, tuna, mediterranean, mediterranian sea, take action, TAKE ACTION: SIGN PETITION )

Antonio
- 718 days ago - greenpeace.org
Greenpeace took action in the Mediterranean today, to stop some French purse seiners catching bluefin. And it's fair to say, things kicked off a bit fast.
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Endangered Status Sought for Bluefin Tuna
Animals  (tags: animals, bluefin tuna, endangered, wildlife )

Maria
- 727 days ago - oceansentry.org
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal scientific petition today to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna under the Endangered Species Act. Overfishing has erased more than 80 percent of the bluefin tuna in the North Atlantic compared to what the
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UN: No Ban on Bluefin Tuna, Polar Bear Parts
Animals  (tags: UN, voted, no prohibitation on international trade, bluefin tuna, polar bears parts )

Simone
- 798 days ago - content.usatoday.com
The member nations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species voted Thursday not to prohibit international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, a species that has been extensively overfished, or polar bear parts.
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UN Wildlife Body Rejects Bluefin Trade Ban
Animals  (tags: animals, abuse, bluefin tuna, wildlife, sadness )

Maria
- 799 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Japan welcomed Friday a decision by delegates at a UN wildlife trade meeting to reject a ban on cross-border commerce in rapidly declining Atlantic bluefin tuna, a sushi mainstay. Backers of a ban, the European Commission and the United States
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Doha Meet to Take Up Ban on Bluefin Tuna
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, humans, protection, bluefin tuna )

Maria
- 838 days ago - oceansentry.org
Setting European Union's (EU) agenda on the forthcoming Doha International meet on endangered species, France has called for a ban on international trade in bluefin tuna.
5 comments
UN Experts Back Proposal for Bluefin Tuna Trade Ban
Animals  (tags: News, Animal, bluefin tuna, trade, ban, UN )

Katie
- 892 days ago - panda.org
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) experts say evidence shows the endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna meets the requirements for an international trade ban.
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