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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9354

30 January 2007
Contents Publication in full By article 24 / 38
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries
World action plan to combat overfishing of bluefin tuna

Brussels, 29/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - In Kobe, Japan, on Friday 26 January, the five world organisations responsible for tuna fisheries management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean finalised an agreement on recovery measures for bluefin tuna, a species threatened by overfishing. The emphasis was put on combating illegal fishing, but the members of these five regional organisations, which represent a total of over 60 countries, gave no indication of how quotas for the various species of tuna...

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