A sushi restaurant owner paid $3.1 million for a 613-pound (278kg) bluefin tuna at a Japanese auction Saturday ... That works out to nearly $3,000 a pound. Overfishing in the region has led ...

Bluefin tuna are typically caught using longlines, purse seines, or rod-and-reel methods. Strict quotas and regulations now govern their capture to prevent overfishing. Japan, which consumes ...

A huge bluefin tuna was sold for USD 176,000 in the first auction of the year at a Tokyo fish market on Tuesday, amid growing pressure on Japan to help save the threatened fish. The 232.6 ...

Tokyo (CNN) — A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most ... have declined severely from overfishing and illegal fishing ...