Overfishing: Oceans Are Dying
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| Illicit ‘looting’ of Mediterranean bluefin tuna is worth £2.7bn |
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| Saturday, 24 October 2009 00:00 | |||
In June this year Japan stockpiled 47,000 tonnes of tuna, the report claims, a tactic that conservationists have claimed is in anticipation of price hikes once the tuna becomes commercially extinct. The official body charged with ensuring the sustainability of the bluefin tuna fishery in the Mediterranean, the International Committee for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT), routinely sets catch limits at about twice the limit recommended by scientists, and accepts that about four times that amount is caught by fishing fleets. There has been a 72 per cent fall in the adult population of eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean stock in the past 40 years.... Read Full Article by Frank Pope
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The scale of illicit fishing, which amounts to 25 per cent of the total catch over the period, will increase demands to ban the trade in bluefin tuna.
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