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Representatives of the fishing industry around the world welcomed the news, but for environmentalists, the decision was a blow. "We're totally in shock," says Gemma Parkes, spokeswoman for the World Wildlife Federation. "And obviously very disappointed. This is a real setback for the survival of the bluefin." (See pictures...
Thanks to the world's insatiable taste for sushi, breeding stocks of bluefin tuna have declined 80% over the past 50 years, with the steepest drop occurring in the last decade. And with tuna caught in the Mediterranean (where Atlantic bluefin go to spawn) wholesaling for $50 per kilo (one...
When the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), an inter-governmental regulatory body that oversees the world's annual tuna catch, failed last year to follow the recommendations of its own scientists and drastically reduce quotas for the fish, the tiny principality of Monaco drafted a proposal...
Voting was conducted by secret ballot, but several other nations spoke against the ban, including Venezuela, Korea, Morocco and Turkey. Like Libya, the latter nation has been accused by environmental groups like Greenpeace of illegal fishing and routinely ignoring ICCAT quotas. "There's a reason why this initiative was so...
But neither is Japan. In part, the Japanese may be protecting their right to whale as a stand-in for a separate issue they actually care about: fishing for bluefin tuna, which is popular in sushi. The Japanese eat an estimated 80% of the world's catch of the species...