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New Spawning Grounds of Bluefin Discovered off the USA

by: Jürgen Oeder
Off the northeast coast of the United States, scientists have detected new spawning grounds of bluefin tuna. The discovery that especially smaller tuna in the class from 80 to 500 lb spawn there while the larger ones head to the...

Bluefin tuna can go hungry in a sea of plenty

by: Jürgen Oeder
Bluefin tuna are going hungry in a sea full of fish because their foraging habits are most efficient with larger, not necessarily more abundant prey, according to a study led by by Walter Golet, assistant research professor in the School...

Cold hearted bluefin tuna

by: Jürgen Oeder
Bluefin tuna can keep their hearts pumping during temperature changes that would stop a human heart: Adrenalin is the triggering key factor. Scientists at the University of Manchester and at Stanford University in the USA discovered that adrenalin keeps the...

Bluefin tuna stock biomass underestimated

by: Jürgen Oeder
Scientific studies have clarified that the equation relating the size and weight of the eastern Bluefin tuna stock (including the Mediterranean one) underestimates the actual weight up to 12.5 per cent for larger specimens. This is bad news for purse...

Open letter to Mrs Damanki

by: Jürgen Oeder
Open Letter to: European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanaki Dear Mrs Damanaki, I am a journalist and author of a book on the deep sea fishing and would like to thank for your work on behalf of...

Tagged Bluefin Tuna Caught Again in Croatia

by: Kopp
The world is small and finite - even for a bluefin tuna that was tagged almost a year ago on the Croatia coast and then caught again (joe) The world is small and finite - even for a bluefin tuna...

Atlantic water condition bluefin tuna spawning in the Mediterranean

by: Kopp
Spanish scientists discovered that there is a clear relationship between the spawning areas of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea and the location of the fronts separating waters of recent Atlantic origin (which go into the Strait of Gibraltar and...