Sentence examples for tons of bluefin from inspiring English sources

Late last month in Marrakesh, the international commission that sets fishing limits for tuna approved an annual quota of 22,000 tons of bluefin from the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.

In contrast, official trade reports and export documents indicated that more than 490,000 tons of bluefin tuna were caught and traded over that period, a difference of 98,250 tons.

In its study, Pew looked at official Iccat catch reports for the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, which showed more than 395,000 tons of bluefin caught from 1998 to 2010.

But it is tuna lovers elsewhere in Japan who are responsible for the decline of the bluefin tuna stocks worldwide, as fishermen around the world catch thousands of tons of bluefin to feed the insatiable Japanese hunger for the fatty belly meat known as toro.

Furthermore, whereas thousands of tons of bluefin per year are fattened in farms prior to export (Catarci 2005), which can also reduce mercury (Balshaw et al. 2008 b ), the vast majority of Bigeye Tuna are harvested directly from the wild.

Efforts to extend the public's appreciation of bluefin beyond sushi highlight iridescent grandeur [4], [5]: fish that can exceed a ton in weight [6], reach speeds of over 50 km/h [7], cross ocean basins [8], depths and temperatures [9] [11], returning to spawn in the same ancestral waters [12] fished by people for millennia [13].

Stocks of bluefin tuna have duly plummeted.

Shoals of bluefin tuna thundered up the North Sea.

Faced with the imminent collapse of bluefin stocks, fisheries officials from 45 countries are meeting in Morocco this week to discuss bluefin quotas for the Atlantic and Mediterranean next year.

Short answer: The management of bluefin tuna is complicated.

This investigation was initiated to further our knowledge of bluefin tuna reproductive biology by using a contemporary transcriptome approach novel to bluefin tuna research.