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Electronic tagging and population structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna

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  • Barbara A. Block

    (Stanford University)

  • Steven L. H. Teo

    (Stanford University)

  • Andreas Walli

    (Stanford University)

  • Andre Boustany

    (Stanford University)

  • Michael J. W. Stokesbury

    (Stanford University
    Dalhousie University)

  • Charles J. Farwell

    (Monterey Bay Aquarium)

  • Kevin C. Weng

    (Stanford University)

  • Heidi Dewar

    (Stanford University)

  • Thomas D. Williams

    (Monterey Bay Aquarium)

Abstract

Bluefin tuna in decline The Atlantic bluefin tuna is at the centre of an international debate in fisheries conservation. Last summer the western Atlantic bluefin tuna fishery collapsed and some conservationists say it will not recover unless the International Commission for Conservation of Atlantic Tunas adopts a tougher regime. Results from an electronic tagging programme on bluefin tuna are presented this week, and they make alarming reading. Western tagged bluefin tuna are shown to migrate freely across the international stock boundary into the eastern Atlantic, where they are vulnerable to European fisheries; and both known spawning grounds, in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea, are shown to be linked to the endangered western Atlantic fishery.

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  • Barbara A. Block & Steven L. H. Teo & Andreas Walli & Andre Boustany & Michael J. W. Stokesbury & Charles J. Farwell & Kevin C. Weng & Heidi Dewar & Thomas D. Williams, 2005. "Electronic tagging and population structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna," Nature, Nature, vol. 434(7037), pages 1121-1127, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:434:y:2005:i:7037:d:10.1038_nature03463
    DOI: 10.1038/nature03463
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    1. Crow White & Christopher Costello, 2014. "Close the High Seas to Fishing?," PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(3), pages 1-5, March.
    2. Councill, Elizabeth L. & Die, David J., 2015. "The relative importance of subpopulation connectivity and the age distribution of mortality in exploited marine fish populations," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 312(C), pages 247-255.
    3. Clive N. Trueman & Iraide Artetxe-Arrate & Lisa A. Kerr & Andrew J. S. Meijers & Jay R. Rooker & Rahul Sivankutty & Haritz Arrizabalaga & Antonio Belmonte & Simeon Deguara & Nicolas Goñi & Enrique Rod, 2023. "Thermal sensitivity of field metabolic rate predicts differential futures for bluefin tuna juveniles across the Atlantic Ocean," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-12, December.

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