The Environmental Magazine: More Sustainable Sushi


Photo Credit: National Geographic

There’s one way to stop further decimating remaining populations of bluefin tuna: stop eating them. The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) has an ongoing Bluefin Boycott campaign that calls attention to the crisis faced by the tuna species—a species that can race across the Atlantic at 50 miles per hour but can’t out-swim commercial fishing lines and nets that have brought the bluefin to the brink of extinction. Popular in sushi, bluefin continues to be a prized catch; so much so that one fish fetched $177,000 at a Japanese fish market in 2010.

The Bluefin Boycott asks people worldwide to pledge not to eat or serve bluefin sushi. More than 20,000 people and a growing number of restaurants have since signed on, including several sushi restaurants from All Sushi Restaurant in Los Angeles, to Bamboo Sushi in Portland, Oregon, to Sushi Ten in Tucson, Arizona.

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 2/6/2011 7:00 AM
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Tags: bluefin tuna tuna Bluefin Boycott campaign Tuna species Sushi endangered atlantic
 

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