I was born and raised in Boston myself, and I yield to no one in my passion for codfish. I hate codfish.

Now, finning is the act of taking a shark, cutting the valuable fins off and throwing the live animal back in the water.

You've got pole caught yellowfin tuna here comes from sustainable stocks.

So we can save the bluefin tuna.

He's sort of a Homer Simpson with fins.

Here, for over 14 or 15 years, we've actually brought in both bluefin and yellowfin in captivity.

The species of fish landed include blue tang, doctor fish, parrotfish, grunts, triggerfish, snappers and groupers.

We've actually taken a sliver of the ocean, put it behind glass, and we together have put bluefin tuna and yellowfin tuna on display.

This is probably the biggest threat to sharks worldwide it is the finning of sharks.

Bluefin are pursued wherever they go there is a gold rush on Earth, and this is a gold rush for bluefin.

That's the size they have to be to protect the bluefin tuna.

Shark fins are an energy booster.

Bluefin are warmblooded like us.

Bluefin have two populations one large, one small.

Bluefin are in cave paintings in France.

99. CCSBT advised that it had not received any report of unauthorized fishing in any exclusive economic zone falling under its area of competence.

The tuna team from TOPP has done the unthinkable three teams tagged 1,700 tunas, bluefin, yellowfin and albacore all at the same time carefully rehearsed tagging programs in which we go out, pick up juvenile tunas, put in the tags that actually have the sensors, stick out the tuna and then let them go.

They used to use the flesh as well for fertilizer and also would fin the sharks.

Now bluefin, in general, goes to one place Japan.

I do three or four strips after that where we explore the finning issue and the shark fin soup issue.

That's one of our bluefin at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

I doubt anyone has seen a giant bluefin feed.

216. CCSBT indicated that the issue of shark conservation and management was related to CCSBT s area of competence and was therefore being considered by its Ecologically Related Species Working Group.

287. In other developments, while CCSBT was able to adopt the recommendations of its Ecologically Related Species Working Group, especially those aimed at reducing by catch of seabirds in longline SBT fisheries, it could not reach an agreement on such fundamental issues as the total allowable catch and quota allocations for 1998, owing to a disagreement among its members over the status of the SBT stock itself.

Now, bluefin were revered by Man for all of human history.

It's hard to study a bluefin on its turf, the entire Pacific realm.

And everything from the kidney, to the testes, to the back bone, to the fin muscle to I think that ís pretty much the whole fish is eaten.

I've been fascinated for a lifetime by the beauty, form and function of giant bluefin tuna.

But on the other hand, our codfish...

And every single day these tuna, bluefin like this, are stacked up like cordwood, just warehouse after warehouse.

Earlier this year, the U.S. warned that albacore and bigeye tuna, also caught with longlines, are being overfished in the Pacific.

But it's a lion of the sea. It's a top predator.

286. In reviewing the southern bluefin tuna (SBT) fisheries, CCSBT considered reports by Australia, Japan and New Zealand, as well as reports by Taiwan Province of China and the Republic of Korea as observers.

And they'll put their fins out and their eyes go in the back of their head, and the fish come up and they just clean, clean, clean because the Molas, you know, there's just a smorgasbord of parasites.

The Phoenix Islands and all the equatorial parts of our planet are very important for tuna fisheries, especially this yellowfin tuna that you see here.

Future action by CCSBT would take into account advice provided by the Working Group.

The Commission agreed on the need for urgent action to facilitate the accession of the Republic of Korea and Indonesia to CCSBT and to secure the cooperation of Taiwan Province of China since the catch of those non members had risen rapidly over the past few years to the point where it threatened the recovery of SBT stock.

Fleet capacity had been raised in discussions within CCSBT as there were concerns that the southern bluefin resources might not be able to sustain the current level of fishing effort by member and non member fleets.

For that, bluefin have been given a status equivalent to tigers, to lions, to certain African elephants and to pandas.

63. The Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) advised that there had been no reports of fishing with large scale pelagic drift nets in its area of competence during the reporting period.

Am I sitting down in a steakhouse to a 16 ounce portion of this?

114. Australia stated that regulations had been made to extend the application of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 to Australian vessels fishing for southern bluefin tuna on the high seas to ensure that Australia was able to give effect to its obligations under CCSBT.

The silvertips are the one with the white edges on the fin, and there're also gray reef sharks and some hammerheads off in the distance.

It flies through the ocean on its pectoral fins, gets lift, powers its movements with a lunate tail.

We're still killing bluefin tuna truly endangered and much more valuable alive than dead.