Japan to exceed bluefin tuna quota amid warnings of commercial extinction

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Japan to exceed bluefin tuna quota amid warnings of commercial extinction

Conservationists call on Japan to abide by fishing agreements after
reports annual quota will be exceeded two months early

Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Monday 24 April 2017 13.19 BST

Conservation groups have called on Japan to abide by international agreements to curb catches of Pacific bluefin tuna after reports said the country was poised to exceed an annual quota two months early – adding to pressure on stocks that have already reached dangerously low levels.

Japan, by far the world’s biggest consumer of Pacific bluefin, has caused “great frustration” with its failure to abide by catch quotas intended to save the species from commercial extinction, said Amanda Nickson, the director of global tuna conservation at Pew Charitable Trusts.

“Just a few years of overfishing will leave Pacific bluefin tuna vulnerable to devastating population reductions,” Nickson said in Tokyo on Monday. “That will threaten not just the fish but also the fishermen who depend on them.”

Decades of overfishing have left the Pacific bluefin population at just 2.6% of its historical high, and campaigners say Japan must take the lead at a summit in South Korea this summer.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/24/japan-criticised-exceed-bluefin-tuna-fishing-quota

[OnlinePoker]

1. Don't worry

I'm sure, being the good stewards they are, once the stock has reached commercial extinction they'll only do a fishery for "scientific" purposes.

[Duppers]

2. Good one.

I cannot understand why people like the Japanese don't give a cluck.