Greenpeace Wants Closure of Bluefin Tuna Fishery in Med

摘要

Greenpeace is demanding that governments close indefinitely the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery in response to overwhelming evidence of widespread illegal and unregulated over-fishing for tuna and the complete failure of the so-called "bluefin tuna recovery" plan. Greenpeace wants the decision on closing the fishery to be adopted at November's annual meeting of the In Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), the body which originated the "recovery plan". European Union (EU) Member States have this year fished over 20,000 tonnes of bluefin tuna - 20 per cent above their legal quota. The unsustainable level of the tuna catch has brought the stock to the verge of collapse. On October 18, the French press publicized a new scandal surrounding bluefin tuna "laundering" involving tuna caught by Turkish vessels being declared within the French quota.