Record prices due to overfishing

Some days ago two Japanese sushi restaurants paid almost 300,000 € for a bluefin tuna (red tuna) of 342 kilos. This was the highest price ever paid for a fish in the world. Overfishing has almost exhausted wild red tuna and there is a real danger of extinction of this species. This is why red tuna is so expensive. Last November, the ICCTA (International Commision for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tuna) decided to reduce fishing catches of red tuna in 4%, so this fish can recover, but this is not enough for the ecologists.

Here you have more information about the record price for a bluefin tuna in Japan: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12117010

Ecologists´campaign for the reduction of tuna catches: 

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/oceans/tuna/