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

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

the unwieldy beast with two fins.

Humpback whale has scalloped edges on its flippers.

Humans, without fins 90 meters, 3.5 minutes.

So we can save the bluefin tuna.

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

He's sort of a Homer Simpson with fins.

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.

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

He gets finned, and then he gets thrown overboard.

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.

Here's a dolphin where the fin's been re attached.

Some of them were dolphin liver. Some of them were dolphin blubber.

Bluefin are in cave paintings in France.

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

Meanwhile, Ernest finds his fins on the internet.

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

I doubt anyone has seen a giant bluefin feed.

It's got light organs on its belly that are flashing, fin lights.

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.

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

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.

190. CCSBT stated that in the current review period its members had implemented measures to mitigate seabird by catch during longline fishing operations (e.g., through the use of Tori poles) and had continued to examine further by catch mitigation measures through the CCSBT Ecologically Related Species Working Group.

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.

It was therefore committed to working through CCAMLR and CCSBT to address these management issues.

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

But on the other hand, our codfish...

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

Traditional dating methods usually use calcified tissue of animals. Some fins can use fins, but this calcified tissue is very scarce in Greenland sharks.

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

And you'll never wriggle off You can bet your bottom fin

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.