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Green activists using helicopters, divers and rotten butter yesterday confronted Libyan and Italian fishermen to release hundreds of threatened bluefin tuna which they strongly suspect were illegally caught off the Libyan coast.

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The New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries is consulting on a proposal to increase the Total Allowable Catch for the endangered southern bluefin tuna by 25% within the current fishing season.

Please use this quick form to send a message to the Minister of Fisheries, Phil Heatley, and ask that he order the Ministry to withdraw this proposal at once, and make a submission on this outrageous proposal by the Ministry of Fisheries.

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"The United Nations will consider a ban on international trade of the prized fish due to plummeting numbers in the Atlantic and Mediterranean"

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Measures to protect dwindling stocks of bluefin tuna fish in the Mediterranean have failed to curb illegal fishing practices, leaked papers show.

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The bluefin tuna faces extinction.

This amazing creature accelerates faster than a sports car and migrates across whole oceans. But it has the misfortune to have exquisite-tasting flesh. Large specimens fetch thousands of dollars for sushi and sashimi. There may not be large specimens around much longer.

The bluefin has been listed as an endangered species for over a decade by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. It is as endangered as the giant panda and the white rhino. But to Europe and America's shame, fishermen in the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean are continuing to take twice the number scientists advise and the stock is on the verge of collapse. Records suggest that the size of adult tuna migrating to the Mediterranean is half that of a decade ago, a classic indication of population collapse.

The World Wildlife Fund is now predicting that bluefin spawners will be virtually eradicated by 2012.

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