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 ...

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 ...

with only the virtually collapsed Pacific Bluefin Tuna benefitting from management measures in line with scientific recommendations. Apia, Samoa: The 38 member Western and Central Pacific Fisheries ...

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 ...

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.

Narrator: But for decades, wild bluefin tuna were over-fished in the Pacific, which was harming their population and making it more difficult to come by. However, more recently tighter controls on ...