http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/old/taxonomy/term/14865/0 fr http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/endangered-perspective-%E2%80%93-battle-bluefin/33056 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/endangered_perspective_-_battle_of_the_bluefin.jpg" alt="" title="The Atlantic Bluefin tuna was listed as endangered in 2011 by the Committee of the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Since then, Canada has supported an increase in tuna quota of 250 tonnes per year, which has received criticism from conservation groups and praise from industry. Danilo Cedrone photo" width="450" height="288" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>I encountered my first Bluefin tuna on a crisp fall morning back in 2012. I was working as a reporter on Prince Edward Island, having only just moved there from Ontario, a place without fish of such tremendous size. I remember regretting the tuna was dead during our first meeting, hanging by its tail from a crane over the humble harbour at Seacow Pond.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/endangered-perspective-%E2%80%93-battle-bluefin/33056" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/endangered-perspective-%E2%80%93-battle-bluefin/33056#comments Zack Metcalfe Environnement Atlantic fisheries Bluefin Tuna Gulf of St Lawrence Scotian Shelf Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:37:32 +0000 Robert DeVet 33056 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca