Majestic Bluefin Tuna soon to be gone...

Assalaamu Alaykum all,

I admit I don't like Tuna, the canned stuff especially actually gives me the creeps, get goose bumps and horrid tingly feelings just thinking about it. Like most people in Britain my early experiences of Tuna was a smelly half eaten tin festering in the fridge.

The fishy smell is a big put off, only later in life did I learn this is not the normal smell of fresh fish, which is more like a salty sea breeze type smell, but tinned tuna especially has this disgusting smell and was a big put off right through my childhood and youth.

To top all that for a couple of months between uni courses I took a job at a Pizza takeaway, which had two big drawbacks, one being the oppressive heat of the pizza oven in the tiny kitchen and the other being I needed to pick up raw tuna with my hand in disgusting freezing cold oil from the fridge whenever someone ordered the sea food pizza.

(As a side note the takeaway was owned by a 'Muslim' from Iran who used to go out with his kaffirah girlfriend and used to rant and rave on a regular basis about his daughter who had rejected his western lifestyle and refused to take off her hijab or meet with men! "I didn't bring her here so she could life like this" he used to say (I've removed the expletives he used to use as this is a Muslim blog)).

So Tuna and me have never got on, even when I have eaten fresh Tuna in Spain, which has a slightly fishy Chicken taste I still can't get the mental trauma of handling the raw oil drenched cold tuna from my mind and I find I can't enjoy what would otherwise be a excellent food.

But despite my mild phobia I know I need to write to inform people of the demise of the Blue fin Tuna, a Mediterranean Beauty of massive size, growing to 6 to 8 foot long and being one of the top predators in the Med.

This Blue fin Tuna has been prized as the king of fish since the times of the Roman empire, probably much before but we can see wherever man left a written record along the med he wrote of his love for the Blue fin Tuna.

Its taste, size and beauty is 2ND to none amongst the fishes of the Mediterranean sea. Its a super fast killing machine gobbling up all the other little fishes and being pray to non but man.

Soon however due the greed of man the fish will effectively be gone from the seas, fished so much that it is down to 18% of its 1960's as the super trawlers and smaller fishing boats of the European fishing feet, which have destroyed this fish stock to such a level that it will no longer be viable to fish.

You see, although there will still be a few left, blue fin Tuna or indeed any species needs to be able to find its mate to breed, otherwise the population level cannot recover or will recover very slowly.

This is especially true of big slow growing animals like the Tuna so this great bounty and natural resource given to us by Allah will be destroyed by the hands of greedy men who are willing to take a big share now knowing the resource will then be gone for their children and future generations.

Allah addresses this when he says in the Quran,

ظَهَرَ ٱلۡفَسَادُ فِى ٱلۡبَرِّ وَٱلۡبَحۡرِ بِمَا كَسَبَتۡ أَيۡدِى ٱلنَّاسِ لِيُذِيقَهُم بَعۡضَ ٱلَّذِى عَمِلُواْ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَرۡجِعُونَ

Corruption doth appear on land and sea because of (the evil) which men's hands have done, that He may make them taste a part of that which they have done, in order that they may return.
Surah ar-Rum, verse 41

But mankind isn't listening to the warnings that Allah is sending us, and may well end up being punished with a calamity not visited upon any other people before.

Before when a people went astray, they were punished alone, now the whole world is astray and the time may soon come where we all suffer collective punishment for the harm we do the creation of Allah out of our own greed and false sense of self-importance.

Mankind is ruler over the earth, yes. But he is not the owner, he is only the caretaker and if we hand it back to its owner in a worse state then we found it then we will all be answerable, either in this life or the next.

Assalaamu Alaykum,
Abu Abdillah