TUNAS OVERFISHING BY JAPANESE...AND THEY ARE NOW IN BRAZIL ...DOING IT WITH OUR TUNA

See  "The global catch" (trailer):  http://db.tt/FP5tFw8C

The photos above show the Japanese fishing vessels in action in Brazil. Photos and part of texts below, from:
(http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrissima/1138936-barco-japones-domina-pesca-de-atum-em-aguas-do-brasil.shtml)  


All tuna are not alike. The canned tuna fish in sandwiches and salads comes from either skipjack, a meter-long species that is caught in prodigious quantities around the world and served as “light meat tuna,” or albacore, another small fish that is marketed as “white meat tuna.” The yellowfin and the bigeye tuna are larger species that are also heavily fished, but neither makes for particularly wonderful sushi, and they are usually served grilled. But the bluefin tuna, a giant among fishes, is the premier choice for sushi and sashimi and has become the most desirable food fish in the world. As such, it has vaulted to the top of another, more insidious list: it is probably the most endangered of all large fish species. Heedless overfishing is steadily pushing the bluefin toward extinction, and the species may soon disappear unless entrepreneurial fish farmers can learn how to breed the tuna in captivity.

Bluefin tuna, which is used in sushi and sashimi, is highly prized in Japan. A recent scientific assessment concluded that stocks have declined by 80% in the past 40 years. 
Blue tuna (Thunnus thynnus) is threatened with extinction. According to oceanographer Sylvia Earle, the National Geographic Society, greater world reference in oceanography, 95%  of the global population has become sushi.

Japan consumes about three-quarters of the bluefin tuna caught worldwide, and imports large amounts from France, Italy and Spain.

The Japanese have come to Brazil.
 Two Japanese fishing vessels are on the coast of Brazil, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, fishing for tuna (see photos above).

A Brazilian businessman (Gabriel Calzavara de Araújo) when responsible for fisheries in the Government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, granted to foreigners for fishing  in Brazilian waters.

The Fisheries Ministry of Brazil, promoted "the miracle of the multiplication of fish"  in the holds of Japanese boats to facilitate the rental of foreign vessels by Brazilian companies. One of them is the Atlantic Tuna (of Gabriel Calzavara de Araújo), which operates from March 2011, having billed last year $ 9 million with the export of 2,000 tons of tuna, or one fifth of the volume  caught.