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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9356
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

EU to reduce 20% of its bluefin tuna catches by 2010

Brussels, 31/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - On the night of 30 January in Kobe, Japan, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICAT) reached an agreement on distribution of bluefin fishing rights between its members. The different parties agreed to gradually reduce their bluefin quotas in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, in compliance with the 15 year action plan adopted last November at ICAT to protect this species under threat by over fishing (EUROPE 9315). Catch...

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