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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9865
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

Greenpeace gets tougher on bluefin tuna

Brussels, 19/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 17 March, Greenpeace International announced that it intended to go to the European Court of Justice if the European Council did not backtrack on the generous bluefin tuna quotas granted for the season that begins in April. “Greenpeace has submitted a formal request to the Council to annul the Community quotas allocated and to decide to close the bluefin tuna fishery for all of 2009,” says a Greenpeace press release. The organisation has...

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