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Since 1966, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has borne responsibility for sustainably managing tuna populations; from 1957 to 2007, according to ICCAT's own estimates, eastern Atlantic Bluefin tuna have declined in population by 74% and western Atlantic Bluefin by 82%. Especially compelling is a close analysis of the ICCAT annual meeting in 2010, where Libya - whose quota was then owned by Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, Muammar al-Gadaffi's son - called for a vote on a two-year fishing moratorium. ... if you land a big tuna after a six-hour fishing, fishing him man against fish when your muscles are nauseated with the unceasing strain, and finally bring him alongside the boat, green-blue and silver in the lazy ocean, you will be purified and be able to enter unabashed into the presence of the I very elder gods i and they will make you welcome. For political reasons ICCAT divides the tuna population into East and West along an imaginary border in the middle of the Atlantic that tuna do not follow. [Extracted from the article]

This is the part of the book where the ethnography of tuna fishing, in the broad sense that is adopted by Felici, unfolds. In the archaeological and historical literature, issues related to fishing technology and its implications often remain hazy to those readers who have no first-hand experience in fishing, and tuna fishing in particular. With the next chapter on slaughtering, preserving, cooking tunas and tunas in medicine, "Macellazione, conserve, cucina e medicamenti", Felici moves on to discuss what happened to the fish after their capture. The fourth chapter, the largest in this book, focuses on ancient tuna fishing, "La pesca antica". [Extracted from the article]

Similar to its Atlantic congener, the Pacific bluefin tuna also has 2 main spawning grounds that differ in the average size and age composition of the fish present, but there is no evidence of genetic differentiation. The pacific bluefin has the largest home range of any bluefin species. Southern bluefin management can be an example for every tuna species at risk of overexploitation. [Extracted from the article]

An investigative journalist looks at the world's obsession with bluefin tuna. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bluefin tuna, which can grow to over a thousand pounds and range far and fast in the Atlantic and Pacific seas, have long intrigued, delighted, and fed human beings. Some are aware that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared the Atlantic bluefin tuna "endangered" in 2011. Telesca builds on these and other studies to examine the evolution and workings of ICCAT, located within a particular "predatory regime of value" (Appadurai 1986). [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Tuna: A Love Story," by Richard Ellis.