BARBATE, Spain (Reuters) – Fishermen like Diego Crespo have trapped the giant tuna swarming into the warm Mediterranean for over 3,000 years, but he says this year may be one of his last.
Japanese demand for its fatty flesh to make sushi has sparked a fishing frenzy for the Atlantic bluefin tuna — a torpedo-shaped brute weighing up to half a tonne that can accelerate faster than a Porsche 911.
Now a system of corralling the fish into “tuna ranches” has combined with a growing tuna fishing fleet to bring stocks dangerously close to collapse, warn scientists from ICCAT — the body established by bluefin fishing countries to monitor the stock.
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