Sentence examples for bluefin a from inspiring English sources

Bluefin ranching as it is practiced in the Mediterranean, and with the Pacific bluefin in Japan and the southern bluefin in Australia, rightly faces strong environmental criticisms since it relies on catching juveniles from the wild and denies those baby bluefin a chance to reach adulthood and breed.

As my colleague in Tokyo, Martin Fackler reports, a sushi chain owner paid nearly $1.8 million for a bluefin, a record, at an auction on Saturday in Tokyo.

An international conference that ends tomorrow in Turkey could help to rescue the bluefin, a noble, ocean-crossing predator, from the brink of collapse — or seal its doom through empty promises and inaction.

In 2013, Kiyoshi Kimura, Japan's self-styled "tuna king", who owns a sushi restaurant chain, paid a record $1.8m£1.3m3m) for a bluefin – a threatened species – outbidding a rival from Hong Kong.

Under the longstanding division of the Atlantic bluefin population, Europe has long had the advantage, with recent quotas of more than 30,000 metric tons of bluefin a year; less than a tenth that is allocated for western waters.

Atlantic and Mediterranean stocks of bluefin, a fish prized especially by Japanese sushi lovers for its fatty belly flesh, have been severely depleted by years of heavy commercial fishing, while polar bears are considered threatened by hunting and the loss of sea ice because of global warming.

He writes with evocative passion about the individual animal wildness of a bluefin tuna, a king salmon, an ocean-spanning cod.

The Obama administration has declined to consider the bluefin an endangered species.

Last year, Bluefin raised a $6 million series A financing led by Redpoint Ventures.

Think of a giant bluefin as an 800-pound torpedo of sushi — some of the finest, fattiest, most expensive there is.

Sushi chefs roaming the Tokyo fish market can appraise a bluefin steak with a cursory glance.