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 Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:27 am Post subject: US Support Proposal to Ban Bluefin |
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UNITED STATES ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR PROPOSAL TO BAN BLUE FIN SALES
March 3, 2010 - The United States will continue its support for a proposal to ban all
international commercial trade of eastern and Mediterranean Atlantic bluefin tuna at this month’s meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Doha, Qatar, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland announced today.
Strickland, who will head the U.S. delegation to the 15th Conference of Parties (CoP15) of the 175-nation treaty said, “... in light of the serious compliance problems that have plagued the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean fishery and the fact that the 2010 quota level adopted by ICCAT (in their November meeting) is not as low as we believe is needed, the United States continues to have serious concerns about the long-term viability of either the fish or the fishery.”
United States will support the proposal to list eastern and Mediterranean Atlantic bluefin tuna in Appendix I at the 15th Conference of Parties and will work actively with Monaco and other CITES and ICCAT Parties in order to achieve positive results for bluefin tuna at CoP15 and at the 2010 ICCAT annual meeting. If the bluefin tuna is listed under Appendix I, commercial fishermen in the United States could continue to sell western Atlantic bluefin tuna caught in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) domestically.
The Western Atlantic spawning stock has declined by 82.4 percent from 49,482 metric tons in 1970 to 8,693 metric tons in 2007, and meets the biological criteria for listing in Appendix I.
The Conference of the Parties will be held March 13-25, 2010, in Doha, Qatar. |
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