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... australia’s bluefin tuna industry chiefs are eager to see a higher catch quota permitted for southern blue fin tuna for the 2012 and 2013 fishing seasons ... the quota is to be decided on by the commission for the conservation of southern bluefin tuna (ccsbt) which met today in sydney, australia, to discuss future quotas ... southern bluefin tuna fish are found throughout the southern hemisphere mainly in waters between 30 and 50 degrees south but only rarely in the eastern pacific ... australia exports 10,000 metric tons of bluefin worth a$200 million; almost all is from penned stocks ... the primary market is the japan, where more than 80 percent of the global bluefin tuna catch is consumed ... in 2009, australia’s bluefin tuna industry was dealt a blow when the australian government reduced the quota for fishing of the southern bluefin tuna by 23 ... the australian tuna industry is hoping stocks will have replenished enough for the quota to be increased for the coming fishing seasons ... the ccsbt will make a final decision on southern bluefin tuna quotas at its annual meeting in october 2011 in bali, indonesia

... the hotly-anticipated spawning season for southern bluefin tuna researchers clean seas tuna has begun, with the company’s broodstock beginning spawning late last week ... the company have come closer than any other establishment to successfully breeding the prized fish in captivity, with disappointment last year when none of the company’s young ‘fingerling’ tuna survived past 38 days ... populations of bluefin tuna are crashing around the world due to overfishing, with the atlantic bluefin tuna widely believed to be in serious danger of extinction ... with the eyes of the fisheries world trained on them, the company’s managing director clifford ashby said that initiatives in 2010 mean they are now “well placed to progress its knowledge and achievements in the production of juvenile aquaculture-bred southern bluefin tuna”

... results of an independent investigation launched this weekend have revealed a complex international black market in east atlantic bluefin tuna worth an estimated $4 billion, with many cases of quota violation, widespread underreporting, use of banned spotter planes, catching of undersized fish, and even governmental misreporting coming to light ... “the revelations of icij’s exhaustive investigation confirm wwf’s repeated warnings about widespread illegalities rippling throughout the supply chain of the mediterranean and east atlantic bluefin tuna fishery and trade,” said dr sergi tudela, head of fisheries at wwf mediterranean ... “no consumer, no business, no government, can be sure they are dealing with responsibly caught and traded bluefin tuna – the whole chain is tarnished ... ” icij’s investigations point to france’s fisheries authorities covering up the illegal activities for years and deliberately misreporting to the eu and iccat, the international commission for the conservation of atlantic tunas – the body that sets management rules for the atlantic bluefin fishery ... the wwf said that recent data it has gathered from iccat confirms that rule-flouting in the mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery was still widespread during the 2010 fishery ... the findings of the icij investigation show the gross failure of iccat’s new bluefin tuna catch documentation scheme (bcd)

... results of an independent investigation launched this weekend have revealed a complex international black market in east atlantic bluefin tuna worth an estimated $4 billion, with many cases of quota violation, widespread underreporting, use of banned spotter planes, catching of undersized fish, and even governmental misreporting coming to light ... “the revelations of icij’s exhaustive investigation confirm wwf’s repeated warnings about widespread illegalities rippling throughout the supply chain of the mediterranean and east atlantic bluefin tuna fishery and trade,” said dr sergi tudela, head of fisheries at wwf mediterranean ... “no consumer, no business, no government, can be sure they are dealing with responsibly caught and traded bluefin tuna – the whole chain is tarnished

... the european union’s commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries has called for a significant cut in catches of east atlantic bluefin tuna in the mediterranean and east atlantic, ahead of the eu’s leadership role at a major fisheries management meeting next month ... wwf, the global conservation organisation, welcomed the move and called upon the members of next month’s meeting, the international commission for the conservation of atlantic tunas (iccat) to agree on a recovery plan for the eastern atlantic bluefin tuna population ... “commissioner damanaki is laying out what could be a possible rescue plan for the atlantic bluefin tuna fishery based on science and not politics,” said tony long, director of wwf’s european policy programme in brussels ... ” a recent scientific assessment of east atlantic bluefin tuna by iccat scientists has shown that stock size is only one third of sustainable levels, and that only a total fishing quota of less than 6,000 tonnes per year might allow the tuna stock to rebuild by 2020 with a probability of over 60 per cent ... besides cutting total annual catch to below 6,000 tonnes, the wwf has also called on the eu and other iccat members to suspend the industrial purse seine fishery – responsible for the current catastrophic situation of the stock – and to establish no-fishing zones in the six known spawning grounds of bluefin tuna in the mediterranean sea ... “this package of measures gives at least a chance of recovery to east atlantic bluefin tuna,” said dr sergi tudela, head of fisheries at wwf mediterranean ... “it is high time to show the world that europe, with its historical role in willingly allowing the depletion of tuna stocks, is ready for a u-turn by leading on the recovery of atlantic bluefin

... the seven stocks that are both overfished and subject to overfishing are: blue warehou, gulper sharks and school shark in the southern and eastern scalefish and shark fishery, sandfish in the torres strait sea cucumber fishery, bigeye tuna in the eastern tuna and billfish fishery, toothfish in the antarctic waters fishery and southern bluefin tuna

... oli steindorsson, chairman of the company told flexnews: "i am very pleased that our board and that of baja, have decided to move forward for umami to complete the acquisition of 100% of baja which is the leading bluefin tuna operation in mexico ... completion of this acquisition would represent a key step in our strategy of becoming the world's leading producer of bluefin tuna ... baja is a company with whom we are very familiar and their management team has done a superb job in developing a world-class bluefin farming operation ... following the acquisition of baja and on a combined basis, we believe that umami will account for over 20% of the global market for farmed bluefin tuna, which will elevate the operating scope of our well refined, sustainable production platform and should enable us to have a meaningful impact on efforts to normalize the global supply of bluefin which has historically suffered from overfishing ... most importantly, we will enhance our efforts in research and development of captive breeding (closed cycle) technology so that, ultimately, we can ensure that supplies of this valuable resource are maintained and the bluefin retains its position at the top of the marine food chain ... is a holding company of fish farms, supplying sashimi grade bluefin tuna to the global market ... umami sustainable seafood owns and operates kali tuna, which is an established croatian-based aquaculture operation raising northern bluefin tuna in the croatian part of the adriatic sea

... whole foods market previously stopped selling especially vulnerable red-rated species such as non-msc-certified chilean sea bass, orange roughy, bluefin tuna, sharks, and marlins (with the exception of hawaii-caught blue marlin, sold only in hawaii stores) ... all swordfish and tuna from red-rated fisheries will be eliminated from seafood counters by earth day 2011

... researchers have found a way of extracting large quantities of bluefin tuna eggs – a discovery which, if commercialised, could boost food supplies and ensure sustainable management of the endangered fish species ... biologists working on the selfdott project, coordinated by the spanish institute of oceanography, found that tuna could adapt to favourable breeding conditions within three years of domestication and produce some 10 million eggs per day ... european research, innovation and science commissioner máire geoghegan-quinn said “if the results of this research can ultimately be commercialised, it can improve food supplies and contribute to economic growth and employment while also helping to ensure a sustainable management of bluefin tuna

... the commonwealth government has reduced the quota for fishing of the southern bluefin tuna by 23 ... 7% to 4015 tons, sparking frustration from the south australian state government, who administer almost all of the country’s bluefin fishing out of port lincoln ... with the northern bluefin populations crashing as a result of overfishing, and with the japanese market prepared to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a single tuna, the southern bluefin is expected to take up much of the slack of its northern cousin ... ” “the recent decision to reduce the southern bluefin tuna quota has resulted in decreased farming activity, which will have significant social and economic consequences for the industry and the port lincoln community,” he said