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Looting the Seas: How Overfishing, Fraud and Negligence Plundered the Majestic Bluefin Tuna

Number 24880
Subject Environment
Source International Consortium of Investigative Reporters & Center for Public Integrity/BBC
State DC
Year 2010
Publication Date 11/5/2010
Summary "A groundbreaking, multimedia expose on the $4 billion black market in bluefin tuna, the world's most coveted source of sushi." From professional fisheries to tuna farms in the Mediterranean and N. Africa, the business was "riddled with fraud, negligence, and criminal misconduct."
Category Contest Entry -- Tom Renner Award Category
Pages 94
Keywords environment; fraud; fishing; bluefin tuna; sushi; black market; fisheries; overfishing; commercial fishing
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