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Press Releases

August 5, 2007: Bluefin Tuna - Past and Present (issued by the Census of Marine Life): Learn more and track media coverage.

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Tag-A-Giant Foundation Newsletter

Thunnus Times, Volume 1, Issue 1, November 2007
Thunnus Times, Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2008

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Calendar of Events

September 1-5, 2008: Biologging III Conference, Monterey, California
September 15-16, 2008: U.S. ICCAT Advisory Committee Meeting, Silver Spring, Maryland
September 22-27, 2008: ICCAT Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Species Working Group Meeting, Madrid, Spain
September 29-October 3, 2008: ICCAT Meeting of the Standing Committee on Research and Statistics, Madrid, Spain
October 26-28, 2008: U.S. ICCAT Advisory Committee Meeting, Silver Spring, Maryland
November 17-24, 2008: ICCAT Meeting, Marrakech, Morocco

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Tag-A-Giant Foundation Media Coverage

• Audio: Tuna on the Brink, August 21, 2008, On Point-National Public Radio-Boston
• Article: Farm-raised bluefin tuna spawn controversy, August 7, 2008, by Sarah Parsons, Plenty Magazine
• Article: New Tools to Meet New Challenges, June 4, 2008, by Gretchen Hofmann & Steven D. Gaines, Red Orbit
• Video: Tagging Pacific Predators, May 20, 2008, KQED
• Audio: Physiology of Marine Animals, May 5, 2008, American Physiological Society Life Lines Podcast
• Article: Bluefin By A Thread, April 2008, by David Conway, Florida Sportsman
• Article: Breeding the Overfished Bluefin Tuna, March 7, 2008, by Susannah Locke, Scienceline
• Article: To Save or Savor? Overfishing Leads to Precarious Status of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, February 27, 2008, by Louis Bergeron, Stanford Report
• Article: Learning From Cod Collapse to Save Tuna, February 20, 2008, by Lee Poston, Innovations Report
• Article: Tuna Fisheries Facing a Cod-like Collapse, February 19, 2008, by Phil McKenna, New Scientist
• Article: Bluefin Tuna: Time to Save these Fallen Giants, February 2008, by Michael Leech, Marlin Magazine
• Article: Advocates Hope Science Can Save a Big Tuna, December 24, 2007, by Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post
• Article: Group Seeks to Curb Bluefin Tuna Fishing in the Eastern Atlantic, November 2, 2007, by Catherine Kozak, The Virginian-Pilot
• Article: Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna Fishery Closed for 2007, September 2007, Wildlife Extra
• Article: Tagged Tuna Reveal Migration Secrets, August 13, 2007, by Helen Scales, National Geographic News
• Article: Bluefin Tuna Populations Mix For Feeding, Separate to Spawn: Study, August 6, 2007, France 24
• Article: From Bounty to Collapse, August 6, 2007, by Melanie Patten, The Chronicle Herald
• Article: Studies Outline History of Declining Bluefin Tuna, Reveal Migration Secrets, August 6, 2007, by AP, Boston Herald
• Article: Atlantic Bluefin Going Way of Northern Cod, August 6, 2007, by Stephen Leahy, Inter Press Service
• Article: Tags Reveal Tuna Migration Routes, August 6, 2007, Fish Update
• Article: Tale of Tagged Tuna: One Swims to Cuba, the Other to Gibraltar, August 6, 2007, by Margaret Munro, Edmonton Journal
• Article: Overfishing Takes Toll on Bluefin Tuna, August 5, 2007, Monga Bay
• Article: Collapse of Bluefin Tuna Population Off Northern Europe Described, August 5, 2007, Science Daily
• Article: Tuna Shift From Pet Food to Delicacy as Stocks Fall, August 5, 2007, by Alister Doyle, Scientific American
• Article: Tags Reveal Tuna Migration Routes, August 5, 2007, by Mark Kinver, BBC News
• Article: Lost Tuna: Studies Outline History of Declining Bluefin Tuna, August 5, 2007, by CP, Edmonton Sun
• Article: Marine Historians Chart Collapse of Bluefin Stocks, August 5, 2007, CTV.ca
• Article: Bluefin Tuna Management: To Tag A Giant, June 21, 2007, by Shana Miller, The Fisherman
• Article: Sweeping the Ocean Floor, June 13, 2007, by Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine
• Article: Tuna to Tango: Catch quotas threaten bluefin tuna despite scientists' recommendations, March 7, 2007, by Susan Cosier, Plenty Magazine
• Article: Satellites and Sea Lions: Working Together to Improve Ocean Models, February 6, 2007, by Rosemary Sullivant, Nasa.gov
• Article: Unveiling the Secret Life of an Ocean Giant, January 2007, by Barbara A. Block and Shana Miller, 2007 IGFA World Record Game Fishes
• Article: Technologies Changing Insight Into Seas, December 18, 2006, by Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post
• Article: Tag A Giant: Sportfishing and Science Team Up to Learn More About Bluefin Tuna, July 2005, by Capt. Peter Wright, Marlin Magazine
• Article: Tracking the imperiled bluefin from ocean to sushi platter, May 3, 2005, by Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times
• Article: Block paper stirs praise, controversy, July 2005, by Lorelai Stevens, Commercial Fisheries News
• Article: Tagging "giants" reveals mysteries of bluefin tuna migrations, May 6, 2005, AquaNews
• Article: Researchers track bluefin tuna numbers, May 4, 2005, by David Kuo, The Stanford Daily
• Article: More protection urged for bluefin tuna, April 28, 2005, by Alan Gathright, San Francisco Chronicle
• Article: Tuna fishing policy "misguided," April 28, 2005, BBC News
• Article: Study: Better protections for bluefin tuna needed, April 27, 2005, by Mark Shwartz/Ken Peterson, Stanford Report
• Article: Following a dream, and tuna, with electronic tagging, February 25, 2004, by Randall Kochevar, Stanford Report
• Article: The Oceans' Buffalos?, Fall 2003, by Dashka Slater, Stanford Lawyer
• Article: Tagging Giants for Research, Fall 2003, by Monte Basgall, Duke Environment Magazine
• Article: On the trail of a massive, mysterious fish, April 1, 2003, by Pamela S. Turner, The Christian Science Monitor
• Article: Bluefin tuna secrets revealed, December 13, 2002, by Chuck Squatriglia, San Francisco Chronicle
• Article: Tuna Online, January 3, 2002, by Chris Powell, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
• Article: Electronic tags reveal stock boundaries ignored by bluefins, August 22, 2001, by Mark Shwartz/Ken Peterson, Stanford Report
• Video: Tuna Tracker, September 4, 2001, ScienCentral News
• Article: Unraveling Bluefin Mysteries, August 17, 2001, by Glen Martin, San Francisco Chronicle
• Article: Bluefin tuna swim too far - at their peril, August 17, 2001, by Peter N. Spotts, The Christian Science Monitor
• Article: Study Calls Into Question Global Quotas on Bluefin Tuna, August 17, 2001, by John Roach, National Geographic
• Article: Diamonds of the Deep, August 16, 2001, by Joyce Gramza, ScienCentral News
• Audio: NPR Morning Edition-Tracking Bluefin Tuna, August 17, 2001, National Public Radio (Need RealPlayer)
• Article: Transatlantic Tuna Travel, August 16, 2001, by Josh Gewolb, Science Online (Need Password)

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Other Bluefin News Sources

Catch of the Day - Marine Fish Conservation Network

Commercial Fisheries News

Fish Information & Services

Google News-Bluefin Tuna

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