Moratorium, reduction of levies, increased monitoring of tuna ... ? No one knows yet what sauce will be eaten (or not!) Bluefin tuna. Seriously threatened by overfishing (60,000 t caught in 2007 allowed for a quota of 29,500 t), the species could disappear from the Mediterranean as has already happened in the western Atlantic.
ICCAT, an intergovernmental organization that sets each year the quota of bluefin tuna can be taken, considering a possible suspension of fishing in the Mediterranean. A solution that was proposed mid-October by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and has received the support of Spain and Japan respectively first exporter and importer of tuna.
Since Monday, environmentalists multiply the actions to denounce the French position for a high quota restriction and reduction of the fishing season rather than a moratorium would mean according to the agriculture minister, Michel Barnier a "failure of collective management of bluefin tuna. The plans, however," for the first time "the possibility of subsidizing the case made voluntary tuna in the Mediterranean.
On the side of fishermen, the European Association of Mediterranean tuna (AETMIS), introduced in Marrakech, intends to prove that tuna is not threatened by fishing but much more controlled by levies illegal fishermen of the Maghreb countries, the Libya, Turkey or even Croatia. AETMIS requests a finery maintaining the quota of 25 000 tonnes per year with increased surveillance of fleets.
The ICCAT decision should be known on 24 November.
ICCAT, an intergovernmental organization that sets each year the quota of bluefin tuna can be taken, considering a possible suspension of fishing in the Mediterranean. A solution that was proposed mid-October by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and has received the support of Spain and Japan respectively first exporter and importer of tuna.
Since Monday, environmentalists multiply the actions to denounce the French position for a high quota restriction and reduction of the fishing season rather than a moratorium would mean according to the agriculture minister, Michel Barnier a "failure of collective management of bluefin tuna. The plans, however," for the first time "the possibility of subsidizing the case made voluntary tuna in the Mediterranean.
On the side of fishermen, the European Association of Mediterranean tuna (AETMIS), introduced in Marrakech, intends to prove that tuna is not threatened by fishing but much more controlled by levies illegal fishermen of the Maghreb countries, the Libya, Turkey or even Croatia. AETMIS requests a finery maintaining the quota of 25 000 tonnes per year with increased surveillance of fleets.
The ICCAT decision should be known on 24 November.
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