What hope remains for Mediterranean bluefin tuna?

Non.

I just spent 20 minutes answering this question and then the computer 'had a baby' and ofcourse I will now have to do it all again, though with out the spontaneity.

I have spent the last 15 years sailing around the world, (maybe I should get a faster boat eh?) I arrived in the South Pacific in 1999 and in 2003 and also 2005 spent the south pacific cyclone season in the solomon islands. Just an incredible place, (you should check it out on google earth). I have never been anywhere as diverse. The fish and bird life is just incredible. We have sailied through 'boils' of tuna for hours and hours. Not just once but several times. Just amazing. I imagine that the Atlantic and

Mediterranean used to be like that 20 years ago. Anyway, after the recent 'unrest' there the E.U. and the Australians lent a hand with some very generous Aid packages....with some strings attached....with hooks on the end....Yep, they basically 'bought' the fish stock. I won't attach any links, you can check it out yourself and make your own conclusion. I have a friend that is a Solomon Islander that recently helped to complete a report for the WWF. I wonder how a similar document will read in 20 years time? I imagine that if we are still around then you will be able to cut and paste your question and just substitue Solomon for Mediterranean......

One final point that I have mentioned on this site before but I feel it is worth bringing up as many times as I can. The concept of Dolphin safe Tuna as we understand it is a total joke. What do people think Dolphins eat? Tins of Dolphin food? Take it from me the Dolphins are starving to death out there. We may as well catch and eat them while they still have some meat on them....

Pound for pound, yellowfin fight harder. In the Pacific, they're roughly the same size (the biggest sport-caught bluefin was 365 pounds, while the biggest sport-caught yellowfin was 399 (disqualified on a technicality, the official record is 388). Most of the fish taken of both species are under 100 pounds. (The Atlantic bluefins get bigger, but it's not like every one in the Atlantic is 1000+ pounds. And they're so overfished that you can't expect to catch one without putting in lots of time and effort and luck.) As for taste, it's a matter of preference. Just because the Japanese will shell out big bucks for a piece of giant bluefin doesn't mean it's necessarily better -- it's rather their superstition that if they eat an "old" fish, they'll live longer. (Never mind that a 1000 pound bluefin is only 15 years old, while plenty of smaller, slower growing fish live a lot longer.) But this superstition is wiping out the giant bluefin. Personally, I think yellowfin tastes better, though it's close. (If you buy "Ahi" tuna in a restaurant, that's yellowfin.) So anyway, my choice would be yellowfin, both for the fight and the eating.

Sadly, there's very little if any hope. Big companies like that are essentially exempt from laws and restrictions cause they have enough money to buy politicians and judges. They pretty much run things now.

Eventually that'll just be another animal on the list of already extinct ones, but so many people don't care at all. As long as they get boatloads of money

No hope-world gov't. last hope-national law's and eu and other intergovt' stuff just papershuffling and rear protection of bureaucracy's supposedly doing some protecting. In my life I have seen the best of the eskimo's who are now toxically embedded with pcb-ddt and other pesticide's. I have seen great fishery's die-Polar bear's and walrus habitat gone-I've spent decade' in kayak's boat's ships and afloat on pan ice all over the arctic-our human attitude is destroying everything-my eskimo dna is next-luckily I've kids'

theres a lot of a$$hole that only see green. there in it for the money or the land. why do you think were in iraq. we are the most advance species but also the dumbest. i hope someday we can save everyone and everything from being destroyed.

the human race is just another species that will go extinct like all before that have overpopulated and exausted their resources ....... this is just nature at work ....... lack of intelligence and rabid consumption dictates this outcome

take away food, take away fishing. nothing left too live for!