The breaking news today is that governments at the CITES meeting at Doha have voted AGAINST a trade ban on Atlantic bluefin.

Words cannot express how frustrating this is. The science and scientific backing is incontrovertible. The public will and pressure is immense. The species could be  commercially extinct within just a few years. Read more »

John Hocevar, aboard the Rainbow Warrior in Malta, describes how sailors from one of the Mediterranean's largest tuna fishing companies violently attacked a female crew member trying to inspect and document their trawler's cargo. Watch the video evidence for yourself. Read more »

While Arctic Sunrise was out in the North Sea protesting against the over-fishing of cod, the Rainbow Warrior's been in the Mediterranean keeping an eye on the bluefin tuna situation. Tuna 'ranching', where wild bluefin are caught in sea-pens and fattened for sale is one of the Med's most profitable industries - growing explosively since the late 1990s in response to increasing demand for Japanese-style sushi. This in turn has provoked a 'gold rush', with legal quotas being totally ignored as pirate fishing boats seek to hoover up every last bluefin in the Sea.