Atlantic bluefin tuna · A warm-bodied tuna whose Tokyo auction prices and ICCAT quotas made a single fish into a geopolitical unit.
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Atlas type -- ICCAT most argued fish.
Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus, Atlantic / Med) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Quota house in Madrid.
ICCAT (1969-, International) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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January prices that are not science.
Tsukiji / Toyosu auction (first-sale theatre, Japan) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Song for the Blue Ocean -- governance as literature.
Carl Safina (1955-, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Red-card menus for bluefin in US dining.
Monterey Bay Seafood Watch (1999-, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Purse-seine to cage fattening.
Mediterranean tuna ranch (1990s-, Spain / Malta / Croatia) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Sister species, different commissions.
Pacific bluefin (Thunnus orientalis, North Pacific) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Shore traps that predate ICCAT by centuries.
Almadraba traps (ancient-present, Spain / Morocco) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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2010 showed range states prefer to keep quota fights inside ICCAT. NGOs still treat that as fox-and-henhouse.
A cage can turn a juvenile wild catch into a farmed loin. Documents improved; incentives did not vanish.
Apex lamnid whose warm muscle, broad diet and 1975 cinema still outrun the tagging papers.
Overall 66 🐟Anadromous fishes that move ocean fat onto spawning gravels -- and into forests, treaties and hydropower fights.
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Overall 41 🐴Upright syngnathids whose male pregnancy and dried-medicine trade made a small fish a CITES case.
Overall 28 🎏Domesticated carp whose Niigata colour mutations became a global pond aesthetic -- not a wild goldfish substitute.
Overall 42 🐡Beak-toothed inflators whose tetrodotoxin made a Japanese cuisine and a genome project out of one family.
Overall 41 ⚡Amazon knifefishes whose stacked electrocytes taught Humboldt, Volta arguments and a 2019 species split.
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