Japan may press Mexico to control IUU fishing by restricting imports of Mexican bluefin tuna
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Manila Bulletin] - October 27, 2014 -
TOKYO, Japan's Fisheries Agency is considering asking importers to refrain from buying Pacific bluefin tuna from Mexico as much as possible in a bid to nudge the Latin American country to take steps against overfishing, sources with the knowledge of the matter said.
The envisioned request would represent a rare move for Japan, the world's largest consumer of tuna, in seeking to effectively manage the finite resource, and it comes just as countries are convening a meeting from Monday in California of a regional tuna commission to discuss bluefin tuna fishing in the eastern Pacific.
At the meeting of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, participating countries are set to discuss Tokyo's proposal to halve catches in the eastern Pacific of juvenile bluefin tuna weighing less than 30 kilograms.
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