Pacific Bluefin Tuna Continue To Disappear

By Published On: 6 March 2012Last Updated: 17 January 2017

They're not just fish, they are animals part of a dying ecosystem that we should be protecting. They're not just fish, they are animals part of a dying ecosystem that we should be protecting.

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Photo: Brian Skerry

Houhora, New Zealand.  Man “finds” a 738-pound Pacific bluefin, or what he’s calling a “fish of a lifetime,” during an recent boating competition.  It could be, if approved by the International Game Fish Association, a world record.  This, replacing a 716-pound Pacific bluefin caught in 2007, also in New Zealand.

He also “found” a 788-pound black marlin, another record breaker, in the same trip and plans to have both sent to a taxidermist for “mounting.”

In other words:

Man goes to the well-known habitat for Pacific bluefin (and marlin) and using all kinds of subterfuge, he ends the entire lifetime of an animal(s).  The 738-pound Pacific bluefin and the 788-pound black marlin, whom judging by size alone were older fish, was then immediately killed for their uniqueness alone.

So, an extraordinary lives were lost for nothing more than “conversation pieces.”  They’re not just fish, they are animals part of a dying ecosystem that we should be protecting. 

Learn more about the Pacific Bluefin Tuna.  They’re beautiful and in trouble. Link

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