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Tuna stocks being depleted

January 23, 2007
By Ken Worsley


Japan is overfishing for tuna, and there may be long-term consequences for the global economy.

At a conference in Kobe, the WWF (formerly the World Wildlife Fund) had this to say:

Atlantic bluefin [tuna], used for high-end sushi and sashimi, is massively overfished and the spawning stock of Southern bluefin in the Indian Ocean is down about 90%.

Japan consumes about a quarter of all word tuna catches, and over half of the Atlantic bluefin. What happens when the sushi runs out?

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