What can be done to save the Giant Tuna?

Question

The Giant Tuna population is dwindling due to the worldwide demand for sushi.

Answer 1

Reduce humanity by 2/3's we're fishing out the oceans, it's not just tuna but many other species that are under stress, fisherman have to go further and further out to get their catch, we need to stop and let the fish repopulate for 5 or 10 years, like that's actually going to happen. So again we will have to wait until it becomes an absolute crisis and then we'll scramble around and not accomplish very much (just like global warming)

Answer 2

If you mean the Bluefin tuna, restrictions on the amount that can be legally harvested are in effect as we speak!

Answer 3

-boycott tuna fish salsa,.

http://www.tunarecipes.com

Answer 4

Maybe the high levels of mercury will curtail the eating of tuna.

Answer 5

nothing, 6 billion people need to eat something everyday

Answer 6

I just spent 20 minutes answering this question and then the computer 'had a baby' and ofcourse I will now have to do it all again, though with out the spontaneity.

I have spent the last 15 years sailing around the world, (maybe I should get a faster boat eh?) I arrived in the South Pacific in 1999 and in 2003 and also 2005 spent the south pacific cyclone season in the solomon islands. Just an incredible place, (you should check it out on google earth). I have never been anywhere as diverse. The fish and bird life is just incredible. We have sailied through 'boils' of tuna for hours and hours. Not just once but several times. Just amazing. I imagine that the Atlantic and

Mediterranean used to be like that 20 years ago. Anyway, after the recent 'unrest' there the E.U. and the Australians lent a hand with some very generous Aid packages....with some strings attached....with hooks on the end....Yep, they basically 'bought' the fish stock. I won't attach any links, you can check it out yourself and make your own conclusion. I have a friend that is a Solomon Islander that recently helped to complete a report for the WWF. I wonder how a similar document will read in 20 years time?

  I feel that commercial fishing should be drastically cutback to allow the fish stocks to build up. I heard this morning that in a decade the chinese will be needing 200 million tons of fish a year. The sea is not a bottomless source of food.

One final point that I have mentioned on this site before but I feel it is worth bringing up as many times as I can. The concept of Dolphin safe Tuna as we understand it is a total joke. What do people think Dolphins eat? Tins of Dolphin food? Take it from me the Dolphins are starving to death out there. We may as well catch and eat them while they still have some meat on them....

  So, what can be done? dont catch them. What will be done? nothing..... ;=(

Answer 7

i'm surpised thiers even any left now witth all the d**n oil spills and pollution going into our oceans! ;)

Answer 8

Eat whale meat, yummm!!!!!