Posted by: carlsafina | Wednesday, November 28 07  More Bluefin
Blues  The story goes like this: It’s one of the largest,
fastest, most gorgeous fish in the sea. Unfortunately, its
extraordinary warm-bloodedness makes its muscle delicious to the
strange seafood-loving creatures that live on land. The value of
bluefin tuna meat goes up due to global demand for sushi and
sashimi. As the price goes up, fishing increases. Too many fish
are caught and the population collapses. Over the past 50 years
bluefin fisheries have collapsed off Brazil, in the North Sea,
and recently off the eastern U.S. and Canada.  The Commission
tasked with managing Atlantic bluefin fisheries is completely
broken. The 43-nation International Commission for the
Conservation of Atlantic Tunas met this month in, appropriately
enough, Turkey, to discuss the fate of bluefin tuna in the
Atlantic. Usually referred to by its acronym ICCAT-pronounced
eye-cat- it should be called instead ICCAN’T. Or, keep the
acronym and change its name to Interna