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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9757

9 October 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries
WWF denounces Italy's bluefin tuna fishing as being “outside the law”

Brussels, 08/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - The World Wild Life Fund (WWF) considers that fishing bluefin tuna is “totally out of control” and “outside the law” in Italy. In a report published on 7 October, “Lifting the Lid on Italy's Bluefin Fishery”, it calls for a moratorium of three years on this fishing in the Mediterranean. The organisation denounces “widespread and repeated lawlessness over the course of years, due to a lack of control, clandestine fishing boats and...

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