Monterey Bay’s Seafood Watch Assigns Pacific Bluefin Tuna Yellow Rating for First Time
Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program released new assessments for Pacific bluefin tuna fisheries in the Eastern Pacific region. The group assigned a yellow (good alternative) rating to the tuna caught by fisheries in California and Mexico which use FAD-free purse seines, and the U.S. pole-and-line fishery.
Like all bluefin tuna, the aforementioned fisheries were previously rated red (avoid) due to overfishing. This marked the first time in the two-and-a-half-decade history of the...
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