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Countries Pledge To Recover Dwindling Pacific Bluefin Tuna Population

The long-term agreement would aid fish stocks that have fallen to just 2.6 percent of their historic size. The news comes at a time when Atlantic bluefin populations are also rebounding.
Pacific bluefin tuna for sale at the tuna market in Katsuura on the Kii Peninsula, the premium tuna auction in Japan. The new agreement to protect the species is aimed to put it on a path to recovery.

When it comes to bluefin tuna, it's not often we have good news to share, but spin the globe today, and there's cause for celebration in both the Pacific and Atlantic.

In a joint meeting today in Busan, South Korea, the two groups that manage Pacific bluefin tuna reached an historic long-term agreement that would put the species on the path to recovery. The and the agreed to take steps to rebuild the population to 20 percent of historic levelsby 2034 — a seven-fold increase from current

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