Exploitation history of Atlantic bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean—insights from ancient bones

AJ Andrews, A Di Natale… - ICES Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Overexploitation has directly, negatively affected marine fish populations in the past half-
century, modifying not only their abundance but their behaviour and life-history traits. The …

Electronic Tagging of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus, L.) Reveals Habitat Use and Behaviors in the Mediterranean Sea

P Cermeño, G Quílez-Badia, A Ospina-Alvarez… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
We analyzed the movements of Atlantic tuna (Thunnus thynnus L.) in the Mediterranean Sea
using data from 2 archival tags and 37 pop-up satellite archival tags (PAT). Bluefin tuna …

The Fall of the Tuna Traps and the Collapse of the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus thynnus (L.), Fisheries of Northern Europe from the 1960s

JL Cort, P Abaunza - Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Following an extensive description and review of the bibliography of the overall situation of
the bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus (L.), ABFT, from ancient times until the present, the …

Declining mercury concentrations in bluefin tuna reflect reduced emissions to the North Atlantic Ocean

CS Lee, ME Lutcavage, E Chandler… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Tunas are apex predators in marine food webs that can accumulate mercury (Hg) to high
concentrations and provide more Hg (∼ 40%) to the US population than any other source …

Exploitation shifted trophic ecology and habitat preferences of Mediterranean and Black Sea bluefin tuna over centuries

AJ Andrews, C Pampoulie, A Di Natale… - Fish and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
During recent decades, the health of ocean ecosystems and fish populations has been
threatened by overexploitation, pollution and anthropogenic‐driven climate change. Due to …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) mean length in sea cages by acoustical means

V Puig-Pons, P Muñoz-Benavent, I Pérez-Arjona… - Applied Acoustics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an indirect method to estimate Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
biomass in cages using acoustic techniques. Two Simrad EK60 echosounders working at …

[HTML][HTML] The comeback of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) to Norwegian waters

L Nøttestad, E Boge, K Ferter - Fisheries Research, 2020 - Elsevier
We document that Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) began making a comeback from 2012 onwards
into Norwegian waters, after several decades of absence, in parallel with an overall …

Improving growth estimates for Western Atlantic bluefin tuna using an integrated modeling approach

LE Ailloud, MV Lauretta, AR Hanke, WJ Golet… - Fisheries …, 2017 - Elsevier
Advances in modeling growth using tag-recapture data and progress in otolith ageing
procedures allowed improved fitting of the Western Atlantic bluefin tuna growth curve …

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) Biometrics and Condition

E Rodriguez-Marin, M Ortiz, JM Ortiz de Urbina… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The compiled data for this study represents the first Atlantic and Mediterranean-wide effort to
pool all available biometric data for Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) with the …

Vertebrae reveal industrial-era increases in Atlantic bluefin tuna catch-at-size and juvenile growth

AJ Andrews, A Di Natale, P Addis… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Climate change and size-selective overexploitation can alter fish size and growth, yet our
understanding of how and to what extent is limited due to a lack of long-term biological data …