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No letup for bluefin tuna
Fisheries regulators have elected to show little mercy to the Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), whose population is in danger of being wiped out by commercial fishing.
On 27 November at a meeting in Paris, members of the Madrid-based International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), which manages tuna fishing, voted for 2011 catch quotas in the Mediterranean to be set at 12,900 tonnes, just slightly lower than this year’s 13,500 tonnes.
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