Give bluefin tuna a fighting chance
By stvasile
@stvasile (7306)
Romania
April 1, 2007 7:16am CST
2007 could be the year that the magnificent bluefin tuna, the fish behind the finest sushi in the world, disappears from the Mediterranean.
Over recent years, high-tech fishing fleets have hunted down, often illegally, ever declining numbers of these ocean giants. So much so that bluefin tuna could soon be commercially extinct.
In May, the bluefin tuna fishing season starts again. But rather than acting to stop this tragedy the European Union has set fishing quotas at a level more than twice as high as science recommends. As a result the fishery is likely to collapse.
Send an email to the governments of France, Spain and Italy - the main bluefin fishing countries in Europe - and ask them to take responsibility for their fishing fleets. Ask them to set aside or allocate half of their fishing quotas this year for conservation.
Send email here: http://passport.panda.org/campaigns/action_email.cfm?uCampaignId=1562&uActionId=2303
Thank you,
WWF International
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3 responses
@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
1 Apr 07
I don't understand why they have to run after the bluefin tuna that much. If they slow down a little, that will give the fish more time to propagate and thus increase their population. These people are acting as though they don't have any idea how the fishes need time and the mature ones to increase their population. It will always be best that we keep our consumption of these fishes at conservative levels. Yet when we hear these people talk about the environment and conservation, it is as though they are free from any guilt - having done their share in this regard concientiously.
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@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
1 Apr 07
They know very well that the tuna fish population is rapidly decreasing. It's just that they're trying to make as much money as fastest possible so that they won't face the end of their business... The big boss will be on a sunny island sippping a cocktail when the tuna will disappear, all the fishing business will colapse, and all the fishermen will have no job...
@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
1 Apr 07
These businessmen, including these fishing giants, are all unscrupulous. They are only thinking of amassing so much wealth which, in truth, they don't have to add much to in order to be able to live comfortably. They have just become addicted to having more and more earnings because they want to be counted to be among the world's richest. Those figures and standings among the rich are more important to them. I wonder if there is anyone around who knows how to get to their conciousness!
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@oscarbartoni (2581)
• United States
2 Apr 07
One of the worst parts about how they find the tunas is that when the fish spawn the airplanes (illegal) spot the fish and call the boats to net them. This will not let them fihnish spawning and therefor the numbers will go down even more because there are no new ones to grow and take the older ones places.If the governments could enforce the laws that woud help but the governmnets will look the other way when the laws are broken.
