Brussels, 02/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 28 February, the Canadian fisheries ministry said that the European Commission's red tuna fishing quotas were too high and should be halved to protect fish stocks (see Europe 9375). We are not happy with EU red tuna quotas for the Eastern Atlantic, explained Jim Jones, head of the Canadian delegation to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), quoted by AFP.
Scientific research shows that the quotas have...