Word: tuna
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...moment, it seemed like the age of the ubiquitous tuna roll were about to end. When both the U.S. and the European Union announced earlier this month that they would support adding the Atlantic bluefin tuna to the United Nation's list of endangered species, it looked as if a majority of countries might agree to prohibit international trade of the fish. But at Thursday's meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha, Qatar, member states voted 72 to 43 against such...
...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 of the tuna trade in Asia...
...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 500-plus-lb. monster recently fetched $175,000) in Tokyo, the fishing industry has shown its own ravenous appetite for the fish...
...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 to include the fish on CITES Appendix 1. The appendix, which bans trade in endangered species, has - with the exception of certain whales and dolphins - historically excluded marine life, and Japan, which consumes about 80% of the 60,000 tons of bluefin caught each year, promised to vote against...
...will push for a ban on international trade of the bluefin. Japan has already said it would oppose the ban, but Tokyo faces an uphill battle. "A ban is the only possibility to prevent a total collapse of this species," says Sergei Tudela, Atlantic bluefin tuna expert for the World Wildlife Fund...