The Times’s Elizabeth Rosenthal reports that the plight of the biggest member of the tuna family is truly dire in the Med. One source tells her its population is in complete collapse. She files from Croatia, where a remnant wild population is well-protected, but where commercial fish farms thrive. In them are juvenile, wild blue fins netted elsewhere and brought to cages along the Adriatic coast to get fattened up for market. The story is a different take on, and a microcosm of, the conflicting economic and environmental stakes driving so many fisheries toward oblivion.
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