Bluefin Tuna are close to being fished out. Should we (the people) not eat tuna anymore?

switch to captive breeding tuna.

@ragingloli How do you know what is what? And aren’t there problems with that, like with farmed salmon?

I love chicken. But I could hold off eating them for a while so they could repopulate.

I used chicken as an example since I don’t eat tuna.

The tuna don’t breed well in captivity.

Try eating Yellow Fin Tuna instead.

We need to switch to eating baby seal.

Soylent Green! That’s the answer to everything, too much corn, too many people, not enough fish, the whole ball of wax.

@filmfann mmmm, baby seal. yum.

Well, look at cod. Supposedly we overfished them to near extinction, yet you can still buy it in the stores.

I think we should eat something not likely to die out soon. Something we have a lot of, and can get easily.

I like cats, I just can’t eat a whole one by myself.

@Psychedelic_Zebra cats are stringy, and not good eating. But they make good bait.

@filmfann do you subscribe to the big bait-big fish theory? If you do, what can we catch if we use a lion for bait?

I didn’t know blue fin tuna was being fished out, seems like there is a lot of it here. But I thought most canned tuna was albacore. Is that a different breed again?

I think boycott is a good method, but you have to engage a lot of the population to join in. If just a couple do it, I really can’t think that it makes much difference.

Farmed fish is as bad as factory farmed chicken, beef, pork etc. They are fed all sorts of undesireable to avoid disease since they are grown in such close quarters and also to increase size and growth rate. Not to mention the filth they are in until the tide cleanses it, which I assume adds to the pollution problem.

We need FishGutsDale to help us out on the fish question!

Ban food atrocities like canned cooked tuna.

Big Eye Tuna (Ahi) is in trouble in Hawaii, I know. They announced restrictions on fishing for it just this week.

There are apparently 8 different species of Tuna or fish considered to be tunas by the fishing industry. Here is a list with the current status of each species:

Skipjack Tuna (stripe-bellied Bonito) (About 50–55% of all tuna caught)
Latin: Katsuwonus pelamis
The scientific assessment of the skipjack stock is that all catching areas are moderately exploited.

Yellowfin Tuna (About 35% of all tuna caught)
Latin: Thunnus albacares
The general concerns on yellowfin is that due to increased catches of baby-yellowfin (especially in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Western Pacific), the stocks might suffer on the long term.

Albacore Tuna (long finned tuna) (About 7 % of all tuna caught)
Latin: Thunnus alalunga
The stock of Albacore in the Northern Atlantic is considered to be overfished, stocks in the Southern Atlantic of West-Africa are nearing a situation of over-fishing, stocks in the Northern Pacific are fully exploited, and in the Southern Pacific they have reached their critical level.

Bigeye Tuna (Ahi) (About 8 % of all tuna caught)
Latin: Thunnus obesus
Scientists agree that the Bigeye resources are fully exploited and in some cases over-fishing are occurring. Hawaii has instituted restrictions.

Atlantic Bonito (Not strictly a Tuna) (Less than 1% of tuna caught)
Latin: Sarda sarda or sarda spp
Status not able to be judged at this point, although catch numbers and size seem to be decreasing.

Northern Bluefin Tuna (North-west Pacific + North- East Atlantic + Mediterranean) (About 1.25 % of tuna caught)
Latin: Thunnus thynnus
The Northern Bluefin is a tuna species under threat in part because it is the slowest-growing Tuna.

Southern Bluefin Tuna (Southern Pacific, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean) (About 0.4 % of all tuna caught)
Latin: Thunnus thynnus
The Southern Bluefin tuna is the most over-exploited tuna species.

Tongol (longtail tuna) (About 4 % of all tuna caught)
Latin: Thunnus tonggol
There is limited data available on the volume of the catch, and the status of the current stocks, which vary greatly by season.

You can read much more detail at this site

@Darwin – that is an education on tuna for sure. I was obviously all wrong about the albacore.

When we lived in Queensland we ate a lot of what was called blue fin tuna because most people don’t like it. It is mostly a darker flesh and people say dry and strong. I loved it, would often poach with coconut milk and spices. So I didn’t think it would be a biggy in the tuna packing industry.

I have watched the commercial fishermen and shrimpers and there is a lot of waste. The small fish caught in the net often die and are just chucked overboard, seems cruel and stupid, those fish could have been next year’s legal catch.

With so many people deciding they must eat more fish I guess the market is getting larger and the commercial fishermen are responding.

Oh hell, another question that I don’t have the answer for. I guess there should be fewer commercial fishing licenses issued? Then fishermen would say, “you are taking my livelihood away!!!” Is the population of the earth becoming too great for the resources?

It’s been “becoming” for a long time. Technology keeps upping the bar as far as resources go, but it can only do so much. I’m not looking forward to the price of oil going up, since that’s mostly what we eat. It’s not going to be pretty.