MITO, Japan (AP) — Japan has proposed raising its catch quotas for Pacific bluefin tuna, a fish so highly prized for sushi and sashimi that its population is at less than 5% of historical levels. An ...

At a large annual auction last weekend, a single 489-pound bluefin tuna sold for a record $1.76 million dollars. That's a whale of a price for a single fish. Conservationists say the demand and rising ...

A bluefin tuna sold for $1.3 million at a predawn auction in Tokyo on Sunday morning, making it one of the most expensive tuna to be sold in the history of sushi. The 608-pound fish, equivalent in ...

KUMANO, Japan -- Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild. Is ...

A Japanese sushi company left the first auction of the New Year in Tokyo with a fish the size of a motorcycle, paying $1.3 million for the huge catch. The buyer, Onodera Group, bought the 608-pound ...

Cape Town, South Africa - As ICCAT delegates are discussing the fate of the Atlantic bluefin tuna – one of the most valuable fish in the world – in Cape Town, South Africa, this week WWF highlights in ...

A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year ...

In a windowless laboratory in downtown Baltimore, some tiny, translucent fish larvae are swimming about in glass-walled tanks. They are infant bluefin tuna. Scientists in this laboratory are trying to ...

A contentious battle between Asia and the West over the fate of the Atlantic bluefin tuna prized by sushi lovers overshadowed a United Nations conference that opened Saturday in the Gulf state of ...

Bluefin tuna is a sushi favorite but it comes with a hefty environmental price. "This is not the perfect fish," the producers of the food series The Perennial Plate explain, introducing their latest ...

Scientists are trying to raise prized bluefin tuna completely in captivity. An experiment at a Baltimore university is the first successful... Farming The Bluefin Tuna, Tiger Of The Ocean, Is Not ...