Atlantic bluefin tuna in 2023: Pacific bluefin still tight · 407
[406] [read-bluefin-tuna-16-6] In 2023, the field log for Atlantic bluefin tuna is headed “Pacific bluefin still tight.” The figure kept beside that heading is 2023. 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. Range 89/100 -- how widely the type occupies or crosses basins.
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 2023, “Pacific bluefin still tight,” and 2023 together or the note on Atlantic bluefin tuna stops being that year’s record.2023
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2023
- Figure to keep
- 2023
- Species
- Atlantic bluefin tuna
- Line in the log
- Pacific bluefin still tight
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