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Tuna's 25,000-mile swim down marine highway By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 15/12/2005) The epic voyage of Terry the bluefin tuna - the equivalent to circumnavigating the Earth - has been witnessed by scientists using electronic tags to track fish. A few months ago a great white shark named Nicole completed the first known ocean crossing by a lone shark over a distance of more than 12,500 miles from South Africa to Australia and back in nine months, the fastest known return journey. Now another epic migration, this time of a 200lb bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) nicknamed Terry, has been...

The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government is considering requiring recreational anglers to get a permit before fishing for species such as swordfish and shark in the Atlantic. The permits would be required before fishing for highly migratory species of tunas, billfish, swordfish and sharks, the National Marine Fisheries Service said. “The use of an annual permit in the HMS recreational category will allow us to better define how anglers participate in the Atlantic highly migratory species fisheries and affect the economies of coastal communities,” said Bill Hogarth, director of the fisheries division of the National Oceanic and...