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Science News (Thu 2 Oct, 2008)
Bicoastal Atlantic Bluefin Tuna - Prized species' east-west populations intermingle more than thought, complicating management
Staff quoted: Dave Secor
Bluefin tuna get around. The highly prized fish traverse the Atlantic with a disregard for international boundaries that has set nations quarrelling over who gets to fish and who sets the limits. Now new research on the whereabouts of Atlantic bluefins could provide the hard numbers needed for developing effective strategies to save the fisheries from collapse.