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addition to jeopardizing the economies of many countries, globalization is also wreaking havoc on the protection of animal species. Thus the bluefin tuna, the big fish can live up to 20 years and reach 600 pounds, continues to be of great economic maneuvers between rich and emerging countries.
Last ICCAT meeting in Paris set the fishing quota allocated for next year to 12,900 tonnes of bluefin tuna. An unfortunate result since this figure leaves about 30% chance the stock to recover by 2020 ...
There are three species of bluefin tuna in the world:
- The northern bluefin tuna or Atlantic bluefin tuna or simply: Thunnus thynnus
- The Southern Bluefin Tuna: Thunnus maccoyi (classified as Critically Endangered)
- The Pacific bluefin tuna: Thunnus orientalis
Each species forms an independent fish stock. Each is overfished most often during the breeding season where it brings together.
In 2006, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT - ICCAT is the acronym in English) showed that the ability of fishing of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean greatly exceeded the capacity production of the resource.
early 2010, France has taken an official position to ban international trade of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean but requested a delay of eighteen months for the implementation of this measure (maintenance of fishing "coastal" with 10% of fishing quotas for eighteen months).
Greenpeace and other environmental NGOs have felt this too long because, according to assessments of the Scientific Committee of ICCAT, there are now only less than 15% of the original population, which puts the species in very critical position, not least from the point of view of the collapse of its genetic diversity Factor (ecological resilience if one wants a rapid recovery of populations).
And according to the WWF denounces heavy overfishing exacerbated by illegal activities, bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean could disappear by 2012.
While the international community has pledged that all fish stocks are sustainably harvested by this date at the International Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, is an extremely negative signal that ICCAT has just sent. By adopting a fishing quota for 2011 almost equal than this year, ICCAT show that only the premium short-term economic interest of industrial fishing. Negotiations have been reduced to discussions of carpet dealers around figures and calculations of probability. There was never any question of protection of a species ...
This very concrete case of bluefin tuna shows that international commitments on marine strategy, are not applied.
In addition, Bruno Le Maire and French fishermen lose. Since the beginning of negotiations, France, speaking through his Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, has defended a maximalist position on the overall fishing quota. She brought with her the whole European Union. France had hoped and be given a deadline for the payment of its debt: 1 500 tons of fish out of its quota in 2011 and 2012. This rebate is in excess of quota by more than 100% of which are guilty tuna French in 2007.
The French request was rejected. This means that the 2500 tonnes of French quota for 2011, the tuna will be allowed to fish "approximately" 1,000 tons of fish.
Greenpeace estimates that 1,000 tons should be allocated primarily to artisanal fishermen, not the tuna purse seine fishing industry alone is responsible for exceeding quotas in 2007.
With this losing strategy in which it was locked, not only France betrays the commitment made in Nagoya, but leaves only a very small probability the stock to recover by 2020. If France had always supported a lower quota and closing the purse seine fishing, all fishing nations have been in that situation, the resource was preserved and a conflict with the European Commission avoided.
Today French fishermen are the only ones to remain alongside and bluefin tuna is in very bad shape ...
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