Tuna-Fishing Nations Agree on Plan to Replenish Severely Depleted Pacific Bluefin Stocks
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Washington Post] By Anna Fifield - September 5, 2017
TOKYO — The world’s Pacific bluefin tuna won something of a reprieve Friday, when tuna-fishing countries reached an agreement to gradually rebuild severely depleted stocks while still allowing nations such as Japan to catch and consume the delicacy.
Japan — by far the world’s biggest consumer of bluefin, eating about 80 percent of the global haul in the $42 billion tuna industry — had been resisting new rules, while conservationists have warned about the commercial extinction of bluefin in the Pacific Ocean.
Proponents of limits hailed the deal as a compromise...
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