http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/41999
This article deals with the current situation/problem involving bluefin tuna, Oceanic Whitetip sharks, and mako sharks. In the past decade, the population of the world's bluefin tuna has gone down by 75% because of overfishing and illegal fishing. A meeting is going to be held in Paris where the International commission for the conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) will discuss this problem and potential precautions that could be taken to bring back the population of these fish. A non-profit organization from Washington D.C. called PEW is calling upon ICCAT to fight against illegal fishing. The bluefin tuna is so rare that in Japan, one tuna could be sold for $100,00. The only bias I noticed in this article is how the author basically says the only reason for the decrease in these fishes population is cause by illegal fishing. There is no escaping the fact that human activity is the cause of near extinction for these fish, but I believe that other problems, such as water pollution, has killed these fish in such large numbers.
II. The living world
A. Ecosystem Structure
III. Population
A. Population biology concepts
IV. Land and water use
F. Fishing
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