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Green activists using helicopters, divers and rotten butter yesterday confronted Libyan and Italian fishermen to release hundreds of threatened bluefin tuna which they strongly suspect were illegally caught off the Libyan coast. In the first action of its kind in north African waters, the international crew of the California-based Sea Shepherd Conservation [...] Northern bluefin tuna © Gilbert Van Ryckevorsel / WWF-Canada Currently, the Atlantic bluefin tuna is on the brink of extinction because of overfishing and illegal fishing to feed a rapidly expanding market in recent years for sushi and sashimi, mainly in Japan, but also increasingly in the United States and Europe. Overall, Atlantic bluefin [...] |
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