Tuna Are Finally Bouncing Back From The Brink Of Extinction
It's been a decade since the plight of the oceans was first brought to my attention. I've always cared for animals and the environment, but the oceans called to someone who grew up in Wisconsin, about as far away from the ocean as one can be. Carl Safina's work studying seabirds and sea turtles, describing their beauty and the threats they face, inspired me, as did his work decades ago to restore America's fisheries. However, it was Sea Shepherd's direct-action approach that appealed to me, and the atrocities and corruption they exposed that angered me. One that stuck out in my mind was their campaign Operation Blue Rage, which occurred in 2010 and 2011. In the first year, they were able to free 800 endangered bluefin tuna off the coast of Libya in spite of being attacked with hooks and rocks. In the second year, they discovered an even larger operation with nearly a dozen vessels working together to illegally catch thousands of tuna. Inste...