Ecologist group Greenpeace has delivered a strong message to the French Agriculture and Fisheries ministry: `Your management stinks.' The medium of the message was five tonnes of rotting bluefin tuna heads dumped outside the ministry building in Paris. Greenpeace was condemning the direction of European Union fisheries policy by current EU President France. ... The environmental lobby is demanding a moratorium on catching bluefin tuna until marine reserves are created to protect spawning grounds, and fishing at sustainable rates is guaranteed. http://www.euronews.net/en/article/17/11/2008/rotten-fish-symbolises-policy-disgust/
Greenpeace was condemning the direction of European Union fisheries policy by current EU President France. ... The environmental lobby is demanding a moratorium on catching bluefin tuna until marine reserves are created to protect spawning grounds, and fishing at sustainable rates is guaranteed.
http://www.euronews.net/en/article/17/11/2008/rotten-fish-symbolises-policy-disgust/
... Global stocks of the highly prized fish have plummeted by 90% in the last 30 years, and much of the blame rests with Japan, by far the world's biggest consumer. Every year the Japanese get through about three-quarters of the world's bluefin catch; 80% of tuna caught in the Mediterranean ends up on the Japanese market. Faced with the imminent collapse of bluefin stocks, fisheries officials from 45 countries are meeting in Morocco this week to discuss bluefin quotas for the Atlantic and Mediterranean next year. Conservationists want a moratorium, but Japan is reportedly about to support a scientific panel's recommendation that the quota be set at 15,000 tonnes, about half the current level. But while attempts are being made to rescue bluefin tuna populations in seas thousands of miles away, nothing is being done to prevent Japan's appetite for tuna sushi and sashimi from ripping through stocks along its own coastline.
Global stocks of the highly prized fish have plummeted by 90% in the last 30 years, and much of the blame rests with Japan, by far the world's biggest consumer. Every year the Japanese get through about three-quarters of the world's bluefin catch; 80% of tuna caught in the Mediterranean ends up on the Japanese market.
Faced with the imminent collapse of bluefin stocks, fisheries officials from 45 countries are meeting in Morocco this week to discuss bluefin quotas for the Atlantic and Mediterranean next year. Conservationists want a moratorium, but Japan is reportedly about to support a scientific panel's recommendation that the quota be set at 15,000 tonnes, about half the current level.
But while attempts are being made to rescue bluefin tuna populations in seas thousands of miles away, nothing is being done to prevent Japan's appetite for tuna sushi and sashimi from ripping through stocks along its own coastline.
