Tuna shift from pet food to delicacy as stocks fall

[jpak]

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL0556522520070805

OSLO (Reuters) - Over-fishing has made Atlantic bluefin tuna a prized delicacy a century after the fish were scorned in Europe as pet food, according to studies on Sunday that urged better international protection.

"Tuna are now like floating goldmines out in the ocean," said Brian MacKenzie of the Technical University of Denmark.

Bluefin tuna teemed in summers in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea a century ago as part of migrations that can take them 10,000 miles a year but are now rarely seen in the region after a burst of industrial fishing from 1910-1950.

"A century ago people would sometimes use tuna as pet food," MacKenzie said of his work studying sales records, fisheries yearbooks and other sources in north Europe to be published in the journal Fisheries Research.

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[Chulanowa]

1. Oh goodie

So long, Atlantic bluefin, it was nice having you in the ecosystem. You just had to go and get scarce so that more people would want to eat your tender parts as a rare delicacy to show off their rich-man testicles.

[shireen]

2. buy pole-caught canned tuna

it's much more expensive, but also much more sustainable. I cringe everytime I walk past the cans of tuna in the grocery store. The over-fishing of that beautiful fish is so sad.

[kestrel91316]

3. Good. People shouldn't be feeding it to their cats anyway.

It's linked to the development of oral squamous cell carcinoma.

DON'T FEED FISH TO CATS.

[Javaman]

4. We are so over as a species...

but we are just too stupid to realize it.

We are coming to the point where old people will become food...

Oh yeah sorry, soylent green.

When the oceans are dead, so are we, simple equation.