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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10076

12 February 2010
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries
Commission likely soon to back ban on trade in bluefin tuna - Small-scale fishing to be kept

Brussels, 11/02/2010 (Agence Europe) - Despite the continued protests of the sector, the European Commission is likely shortly to propose that, at the 15th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to be held in Doha (Qatar) on 13-25 March 2010, the EU support a ban on the trade in bluefin tuna, a species stocks of which are in a very poor state. The Commission may adopt its position at one of the forthcoming College meetings (17...

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