Help Save the King of Sushi!!!

I'm not blogging much anymore and I didn't expect any new posts this year but I just had to put this post down even if no bloggers are actually going to see it. I just think it is really important to express this.

The King of Sushi is also know very well as Blue Fin Tuna.
Tuna is considered very yummy amongst people who like Sushi or eating Mediterranean seafood. But most people don't know that the Blue Fin Tuna is classified as Critically Endangered. Something (usually an animal) becomes critically endangered when it is facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild in the immediate future.

Blue Fin Tuna are very large fishies that can be found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans in both temperate and cold seas. They are (or probably were) a very large species commonly caught by Indonesian and Japanese commercial long-liners in many of their spawning grounds.

Some people have tuna ranches where they keep tuna in many netted pens the size of football fields! The main goal is not to breed them but to fatten then up by feeding them mackerel and sardines. The goal is to get the tuna to gain 20% in weight. There is also a very special event in the Mediterranean which begins with a small armada of boats. They sail off to the spawning ground where the boats assemble in a very large circle. They surround the circular area with nets. When two hours pass by they start to slowly close in on their prey, bringing the boats and nets closer to each other. When they are close enough the fishermen wrestle the smaller tuna on board, while the bigger ones have to be winched. The water and decks become really red from the blood. This event is called "la mattanza" which literally means "the slaughter." This is done all in the service of sushi.

"Southern bluefin tuna are a highly migratory species. If the current exploitation continues, the population will be below 500 mature individuals within the next century, which is a number far too low to be sustainable."

GO THE KING OF SUSHI!!! :)