I was really interested in finding out that more than just the bluefin is in danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [24 Hours] Reference

First of all, selling a big bluefin is not as easy as catching one and running to the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Would You Turn Commercial For The Right Price?] Reference

Nobu promised to label bluefin as an endangered species on all of their menus, but subsequently changed tactics and cut off communications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Kessler: Save the Bluefin Tuna] Reference

Mercury levels are significantly higher in bluefin akami.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The bluefin is the most prized among tuna for making sushi or sashimi in Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference

The British until recently called the bluefin "tunny" (from the Latin, Thunnus thynnus).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

The average mercury levels in bluefin akami were higher than those permitted by the US Food and Drug Administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Livescience.com] Reference

bluefin toro samples had the equivalent of 0.123 microgrammes per kilo of bodyweight per day, and bluefin akami 0.180.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

"Mean mercury levels for bluefin akami exceed those permitted by the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS magazine - The science of everything] Reference

However, species in serious decline, such as bluefin tuna, remain among customer favorites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference

The average bluefin yields 10,000 pieces of sushi.    From Wordnik.com.  [If You Knew Sushi] Reference

We take an inside look at bluefin tuna, when we come back.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009] Reference

At that price, fishermen are motivated to go after bluefin tuna.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year Of The Ocean] Reference

One of the most prized and rare fish left on the globe is bluefin tuna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Reese Halter: Bountiful Ocean Requires Conservation Plan] Reference

For example, a lot of places on the East Coast still sell bluefin tuna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terms of Endangerment] Reference

Nobody would disagree that bluefin is the most delicious tuna on earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terms of Endangerment] Reference

Say it turns out that this year's bluefin tuna larvae have been wiped out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf Oil Spill: Rick Steiner Got BP Disaster Right From The Beginning, Warns Crisis Is Far From Over] Reference

The second salient feature of the Atlantic bluefin market is Japanese demand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seth Korman: Japan As the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna's Savior] Reference

Two particular features of the Atlantic bluefin market exacerbate the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seth Korman: Japan As the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna's Savior] Reference

A commercial trawler unloads its bluefin at a dock in Gloucester, Massachusetts.    From Wordnik.com.  [If You Knew Sushi] Reference

Until the summer of 1972, bluefin tuna was basically worthless to American fishermen.    From Wordnik.com.  [If You Knew Sushi] Reference

These diners told us they eat bluefin twice a week, especially toro, the choicest cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009] Reference

As Lawrence McGinty reports, it's all about a mismatch between demand and supply of bluefin tuna.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009] Reference

A paragraph devoted to the need for bluefin conservation would not have been too much to ask. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 2007: More letters to the editor] Reference

COOPER: But the stuff that they get in stores here, it's like the cut-rate smaller bluefin pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2008] Reference

Now out of government, he, surprisingly, supports a total ban on fishing for Mediterranean bluefin.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009] Reference

This is an auction of Pacific bluefin, frozen at sea, in Yaizu, Japan's second biggest fishing port.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009] Reference

Since the opening of the Japanese sashimi market in the 1970s, the population of the Atlantic bluefin has crashed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seth Korman: Japan As the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna's Savior] Reference

And now there are calls for bluefin to be listed under the international law that bans trade in endangered species.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009] Reference

Japan, the primary consumer, has little ability to control bluefin fishermen (and thus the size of the bluefin catch).    From Wordnik.com.  [Seth Korman: Japan As the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna's Savior] Reference

We know we have reached the end of the line with a number of fish species – notably bluefin tuna, the poster fish for ecocide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can I eat fish and be green?] Reference

Eastern Atlantic bluefin is an endangered species and western Atlantic bluefin is worse off; it's listed as critically endangered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Reese Halter: Bountiful Ocean Requires Conservation Plan] Reference

Thus, in order to best protect the bluefin, Japan must pay for -- and thus have a primary role in -- Atlantic bluefin conservation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seth Korman: Japan As the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna's Savior] Reference

This provides each fisherman with the incentive to take as many bluefin as possible, else another fisherman will catch them instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seth Korman: Japan As the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna's Savior] Reference

Serving bluefin is something that Eric Ripert, chef of the three-Michelin-star restaurant Le Bernardin, in New York City, will not do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terms of Endangerment] Reference