Tuna! Oh, tuna fish!

Hey, tuna.

Tuna. ( excited chatter )

Tuna and shrimp!

This is a shot of Cannery Row in 1932.

The tuna catch is declining.

Take tuna, a major drawback.

I'm gonna sail for tuna.

That is where the tuna spawn.

So we can save the bluefin tuna.

Phoenix Islands is a major tuna location.

Cannery Row, at the time, had the biggest industrial canning operation on the west coast.

We bring the tuna out, we measure it.

The tuna is running You hear that? ( laughing )

This tuna is actually moving on a numerical ocean.

That could be tuna sex and there it is.

These are the tuna, the billfish and the sharks.

These animals and their demise occurs in the tuna fisheries.

We've actually taken a sliver of the ocean, put it behind glass, and we together have put bluefin tuna and yellowfin tuna on display.

The Phoenix Islands and all the equatorial parts of our planet are very important for tuna fisheries, especially this yellowfin tuna that you see here.

And when I see that tuna this is my favorite view

Me, I know one thing, them tuna fish ain't gonna wait.

So the key now is to make it behave like tuna.

You've got pole caught yellowfin tuna here comes from sustainable stocks.

That's the size they have to be to protect the bluefin tuna.

The tuna is running again, Joe. I heard it on the radio.

This tuna symbolizes what's the problem for all of us in the room.

And that tuna thinks it's going to Japan, but it's staying in place.

But that's about half the size of the biggest tuna we've ever tagged.

How am I gonna take my boat chasing tuna, 5 00 tomorrow morning?

There was tuna salad sandwiches and egg salad sandwiches and salmon salad sandwiches.

And I helped these five fishermen to work together and get this beautiful tuna not to the cannery in Albany for 60 cents a kilo, but we found a way to take the fish for sushi to Japan for 15 dollars a kilo, and the farmers came to talk to me, said,

The skin of a shark is much rougher than that of a tuna fish.

We're still killing bluefin tuna truly endangered and much more valuable alive than dead.

The European population and North African the Eastern bluefin tuna is fished at tremendous levels

Well, you may have lost your tuna, Mr. Vardez, but you caught yourself a shark.

Maybe what I think Tastee Wheat tasted like, actually tasted like oatmeal or tuna fish.

I've been fascinated for a lifetime by the beauty, form and function of giant bluefin tuna.

We go in the tanks with the tuna we touch their naked skin it's pretty amazing.

If I go to a secluded island, he has to go and catch tuna or something

So the key thing to remember here is, we don't really care what this tuna really is.

For example, these tuna that were once so abundant in the North Sea are now effectively gone.

That means it takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna.

With the help of my former postdoc, Gareth Lawson, this is a gorgeous picture of a single tuna.

And this also actually happens with tuna and scallops. So, with the steak, you might drink a beer.