Red Gold The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna

Jennifer E. Telesca, "Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna"
English | ISBN: 1517908515 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is the world’s foremost organization for managing and conserving tunas, seabirds, turtles, and sharks traversing international waters. Founded by treaty in 1969, ICCAT stewards what has become under its tenure one of the planet’s most prominent endangered fish: the Atlantic bluefin tuna. Called "red gold" by industry insiders for the exorbitant price her ruby-colored flesh commands in the sushi economy, the giant bluefin tuna has crashed in size and number under ICCAT’s custodianship.
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