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Many tuna species do need help, but that's a really hyperbolic comparison: A) Every single species of tiger is at least IUCN Endangered, and many are Criticall
by scott_karana 11y ago
Many tuna species do need help, but that's a really hyperbolic comparison:
A) Every single species of tiger is at least IUCN Endangered, and many are Critically Endangered, or Extinct. [1]
B) Whereas tuna species have a spectrum of IUCN ratings from Least Concern to Critically Endangered, with "Near Threatened" looking like the mean, and with no extinction of any tuna species witnessed yet in documented human history.[2]
C) Tuna are high predators, but are rarely apex predators like tigers. (For example, predators of albacore: [3][4])
D) I can only find one example of tuna extirpation: the North Atlantic Bluefish.[5] Whereas tiger territories have diminished 93%.[2]
1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna#True_tuna_species https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna#True_tuna_species
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger#Subspecies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger#Subspecies
3 http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2011/bularz_noah/interactions.htm http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2011/bularz_noah/interactions...
4 https://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?ParentMenuId=136&id=1173 https://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?ParentMenuId=136&id=11...
5 https://www.google.com/search?q=tuna+extirpation https://www.google.com/search?q=tuna+extirpation
- Synaesthesia 11y agoWell the analogy may be hyperbolic and loose, the point is that very little attention is given comparatively to the wiping out of oceanic life, which is very large in scale. We are fishing the ecology into extinction very rapidly.