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Fishing ban could save bluefin tuna
Felix Allen09.09.09
Green groups have welcomed EU plans to ban fishing of bluefin tuna over fears worldwide stocks have fallen to critically low levels.
Under the proposal, the fish would be listed as endangered, temporarily suspending trade in the species, which fetches high sums in Japan, and allowing stocks to increase.
Celebrities including Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley and Elle Macpherson have lent support to efforts to save the huge fish, writing to Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, to back the ban.
WWF's Tony Long said the commission had made "the right choice, leading the EU to heed advice that Atlantic bluefin tuna is dangerously close to collapse".
Reader views (4)
What about saving some North Sea fish: Cod is now more expensive than Haddock!
- Threaded, Roskilde, Denmark
Not if it is ignored by rest of the World especially the Japanese!
- James Macleod Ritchie, Oyster Bay Cove
Having seen two of these enormous fish whilst out swimming in the last 20 years, the Mediterranean will be a far sader place if we loose them. Over-fishing due to greed is no longer acceptable. If we cannot save the tuna do we have any chance saving ourselves?
- Martin Bailey, Sta Eulalia Ibiza
Well,it would certainly help.
- Steve, London
