Thanks to the senseless human activity and excessive greed, the days for one of the ocean’s largest and fastest predators are numbered. Bluefin tuna populations have been rapidly shrinking in the Atlantic and the experts at WWF predict that if fishing of this depleting breed is not completely halted during the breeding season, in a mere matter of 3 years, they’ll probably disappear.

The Bluefin tuna spawns only from the age of four and the current fishing patterns, they will be wiped out by 2012, “thanks” to a very high demand in the Japanese market as a sushi delicacy.

While a growing numbers of restaurants and retailers including Carrefour’s Italian supermarkets are boycotting, illegal fishing and the greediness to make more cash each year are surely proving to be the death knell for the Bluefin.


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Racing in the oceans at the speed of a sports car, is apparently not enough for the Bluefin tuna to escape a tragic future. Something HAS to be done, NOW! [via Reuters]

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