Brussels, 31/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - The extraordinary situation in Libya has encouraged EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki to call for the Libyan bluefin tuna fleet in the Mediterranean to be temporarily suspended. Damanaki expressed serious doubts about the ability of the Libyan authorities to ensure full respect of the bluefin tuna recovery programme introduced by the International Commission for the Conservation of Tuna in the Atlantic (ICCAT).
Maria Damanaki has written to the...