The aquarium’s Seafood Watch upgraded some bluefin caught off the coast of California and Mexico from red (avoid) to yellow (good alternative).

The Pacific bluefin tuna is not yet listed, but overfishing is now occurring, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service. Sadly, bluefin remains on the menu in some restaurants. The sushi ...

In January 2013 scientists released an assessment that estimated a 96.4 percent decline of Pacific bluefin tuna from unfished levels. Catch limits were implemented for the first time in the eastern ...

There are three species of bluefin tuna: Pacific (Thunnus orientalis), Southern (Thunnus maccoyii), and Atlantic (Thunnus thynnus), the latter of which is the largest. Revered for their “rich ...

WWF warns that the Pacific bluefin tuna stock, worth millions of dollars, is dangerously close to commercial, and potentially ecological, extinction, at just 2.6% of its historic biomass. Additionally ...

The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) has agreed to increase the catch quota by 1.5 times for bluefin tuna weighing 30 kilograms or more next year. The agreement was reached ...

who met this week to discuss tuna management measures achieved too little too late to save the Pacific Bluefin tuna, says WWF. Sapporo, Japan – Members of the Northern Committee (NC)* of the Western ...

A rare run of bluefin tuna off North Carolina's Outer Banks has pier anglers hooking giants just yards from the beach.

Tuna hauls around the islands of Hachijojima and Miyakejima are on the rise, as catch quotas have been expanded thanks to the ...

The inner Hauraki Gulf will be closed for three years to commercial and recreational spiny rock lobster fishing to help rebuild the population, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says.

In the 1960s the amount of parent bluefin tuna fish stocks in the Pacific Ocean was estimated at more than 100,000 tons, but after that it declined significantly due to overfishing.