Thanks for adding me.
I have a couple of questions about blue fin tuna populations.
First, when I do a search on the subject I get a lot of hits on articles warning about dangerous declines in blue fin tuna populations but most of the articles (like this one: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bluefin-tuna-stocks-threatened-cites-japan-monaco) are written in 2009.
Has something happened since 2009 to stabilize the populations, like some kind of restrictions on the use of long-lines or something else?
Second, I remember a discussion a long time ago on another forum on this subject and a person posting there was a commercial fisherman and he said that commercial fishing can never drive a species to extinction because long before it reaches that point it will become commercially non-viable and fisherman will stop fishing for it and then its population will rebound. Does that sound right?
There are a lot of knowledgeable people on this thread so I thought I’d throw these two questions out there.
The thread itself, by the way, is very interesting.
I was confused the whole time because 50 minutes of the show were dedicated to their stupidity then they end the last 10 minutes with them saving 3 million dollars of tuna.
All I know is the Blue Fin is in the Gulf of Mexico and Mediterranean. And that overfishing has screwed the population. And poachers make it worse. And no one is enforcing the law.
These International "Committees" are just jokes. What happens is massive bribery for votes.
But Travis can clarify this issue better than I could.