Atlantic bluefin tuna — Eastern TAC rises · 196

No. First-sale theatrics at Tsukiji/Toyosu are marketing. ICCAT indices and spawning-stock biomass are the management numbers. Did Atlantic bluefin recover in the 2010s? 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.