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International Fisheries Commission fail to protect Tuna and Sharks
Quotas of bluefin tuna are to be cut by 40 percent next year but environment groups say it is still not enough to save the species.
After meeting for ten days, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) refused to end fishing for Atlantic bluefin tuna
Credit: Akira Kamikura
Pieces of tuna Nigirizushi (hand-formed sushi).
Pew Charitable Trusts | Pew Environment Group Urges Stronger Action to save Bluefin Tuna and Sharks, ... | 11-17-2009
ICCAT set the catch limit for bluefin, considered the most valuable fish in the sea, at 13,500. Member countries also agreed on only one measure that will help conserve sharks in the Atlantic, a ban on the retention and landing of big eye threshers, but Mexico was granted an exemption to catch 110 of these vulnerable sharks.
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ICCAT said Monday that imposing a total ban on blue-fin Tuna would would encourage illegal fishing.
"Since its inception, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas has been driven by short-term commercial fishing interests, not the conservation ethic implied by its name," said Susan Lieberman, Director of International Policy for the Pew Environment Group.
"Only a zero catch limit could have maximized the chances that Atlantic bluefin tuna could recover to the point where the fishery could exist in the future."
"This will definitely encourage under-reporting of catches and illegal fishing," said Xavier Pastoor, executive director of Oceana, a conservation group.
Sushi supplies 'secured'
The decision not to ban bluefin catches was warmly welcomed at the ICCAT meeting by Japan, where the fish is a highly-prized delicacy.
ICCAT claims the 40 percent quota cut, and a reduction of the bluefin fishing season to just one month, gives bluefin stocks a 60 percent chance of recovering within 15 years.
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