In the cages, tuna fatten up on smaller fish, often for months at a time, before they are slaughtered and shipped off to Japan — the market for nearly 80% of the Mediterranean bluefin catch.

Rome, Italy – As the Mediterranean’s bloated fishing fleets ready themselves for the opening of the bluefin tuna fishery tomorrow, WWF has released an analysis showing that the bluefin breeding ...

Stocks of Mediterranean bluefin tuna, prized for sushi dishes, could collapse if the European Union does not slash quotas for the coming fishing season, the conservation body WWF International ...

Rome, Italy – 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 ...

Writer Karen Pinchin visits the massive markets of Madrid to learn about the age-old practice of tuna fishing. By Karen Pinchin Published Jul 18, 2023 9:57 AM EDT ...

In late May, Majid Ben Hamed, a tuna captain who has fished since 1992, stood amid the blue and green fishing nets laid along the port, where everyone was busy mending them with long metal needles.

States party to an international fish conservation treaty have agreed to limit the fishing of bluefin tuna, an endangered species, in the Mediterranean, European Union officials said on Tuesday ...

Rivka Galchen on “Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas,” by Karen Pinchin, and the importance of an ancient and threatened fish.