To supply the world's sushi markets, bluefin tuna are fished from the Mediterranean at four times the sustainable rate.
They are then fattened up in 69 ranches (here, fresh from the wild in a pen off the San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain) that have sprung up in the Mediterranean over the past decade. 'Bluefin tuna continue to grow throughout their long lives, crisscross entire oceans annually and are capable of swimming nearly from the equator to the poles,' says Brian, who describes them as 'one of the most incredible animals that has ever lived.' But their populations are crashing through overfishing, legal and illegal, and despite calls for a temporary ban on global trade to let numbers build up, tuna continue to be hunted - probably to extinction in the very near future.
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Brian is a photojournalist specialising in marine wildlife and underwater environments. He's the author of 10 books and has lectured at venues such as the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), The National Press Club in Washington, DC, and the Sydney Opera House in Australia. He has held solo exhibitions in cities such as Perpignan, Geneva, Barcelona, Lisbon, Shanghai and Washington, DC. In 2014 he was named a National Geographic Photography Fellow.
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