The end of Sushi?
DOHA — Atlantic bluefin tuna is in crisis and clearly meets the criteria for a total ban on international trade, the head of the UN wildlife trade organisation said on Saturday.
“The secretariat believes the species (Thunnus thynnus) meets the criteria for Appendix I” of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), said Secretary General Willem Wijnsteker in opening the convention’s triennial meeting in Qatar.
He said this conclusion “has been confirmed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the scientific committee of the ICCAT,” the inter-governmental fishery group that manages tuna stocks in the Atlantic and adjacent seas.
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