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Atlantic bluefin tuna in 2014: Quota cuts bite

[134] [more-bluefin-tuna-34] In 2014, the field log for Atlantic bluefin tuna is headed “Quota cuts bite.” The figure kept beside that heading is 2014. It is a count or a date from the work, not a rank of the species’ worth. A zoo birthday card does not replace the log. Resilience scores encode those limits relative to the other 23 types.

Eastern Atlantic/Mediterranean quotas and enforcement improved some indices after a crash. Recovered is a press word; scientists speak in probabilities and two stocks. Purse seines catch live fish for fattening cages. It can hide juvenile take inside a farmed label. Why did Carl Safina write about bluefin?

Song for the Blue Ocean (1997) and later essays treated giant tuna as a governance failure, not a recipe. Thunnus orientalis is a different species under WCPFC/IATTC math. The sushi case looks identical; the commissions do not. Burst speeds exceed 60 km/h. Regional endothermy lets the fish hunt in colder water than most tunas.

Monterey Bay Aquarium cards made bluefin a red-list menu item in US restaurants long before some stocks ticked up. Are there spawning grounds still in the Gulf of Mexico? Western stock spawning in the Gulf remains a closed-area and oil-spill argument after 2010 Deepwater Horizon papers.

Keep 2014, “Quota cuts bite,” and 2014 together or the note on Atlantic bluefin tuna stops being that year’s record.2014

Figures to keep

Year of the note
2014
Figure to keep
2014
Species
Atlantic bluefin tuna
Line in the log
Quota cuts bite

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