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The Northern Bluefin tuna has sustained Mediterranean civilization for 5000 years, yet in the 20th century in particular, its numbers collapsed thanks to a growing market for Japanese sushi. Eighty percent of the Atlantic tuna haul has been taken up by the Japanese, with ever increasing prices paid for high quality Bluefin. Recently the Mitsubishi corporation have been stockpiling frozen Bluefin, escalating the prices even further by tightening supply. Apparently they are waiting for commercial… Continue

The most successful wildlife documentary of all time was the Blue Planet produced by the BBC perhaps around 2004. It has the most amazing images of yellowfin tuna feeding on bait balls. Watching such documentaries, you could be forgiven for asking: overfishing?, what problem? This dire lack of "we don't tell people what to do, eat/we don't do environment, we just like to show the wilderness" was overturned in the last episode of South Pacific, series 1 episode 6. It is still available at the tim… Continue