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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9335
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

Better tuna conservation and control measures in Pacific

Brussels, 02/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - The annual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) in December decided to introduce a range of monitoring and control measures to improve the conservation of fish stocks. The WCPFC came into being on 19 June 2004 and has 26 members, including the European Community, Australia, New Zealand and China. The WCPFC agreed to an EU proposal to formally blacklist illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, becoming the...