The stakes have risen again in the battle over bluefin tuna.
More valuable than ever to New England's regulation-saddled fishing fleet — and reported in abundance offshore this fall by local boats — the prized sushi fish is now the subject of an attempted endangered species listing in the United States, a designation that could end fishing for the species here.
Filed by the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group best known for its work against the logging industry on behalf of the spotted owl, the bid for bluefin endangered species status may be a longshot.
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