Time to save the tuna!
Atlantic bluefin tuna are now on the brink of the collapse, that because of their properties and high value as one of the fishes used to prepare Sushi and Sashimi, that get us now to the OVERFISHING ( some of it illegal, unregulated and unreported) of the specie and reducing significatively their number.Many important scientists support this idea, and recent studies of them show that this type of tuna has declined more than 80% in the last 40 years.
CITES (Convention on intennational trade in endangered spieces of wild fauna and flora) has try to regulate this situation by providing goverments with objective information to evaluate the overexplotation and for stablishment of protective measures. However, a proposal to save atlantic bluefin tuna in the last march was defeated because political games and backroom deals in despite of support of important comitees and countries.Countries against this proposal argued that ICCAT (international commission for the conservation of atlantic tunas) should be the center to respond to the crisis of this tuna.
Actually, the main solution to aviod the overexplotation of Atlantic bluefish tuna and their future extinction is by suspending the fishery of this specie until strong managment and mesures are in place, and, of course, that this tuna shows signs of recovery. Another solution could be the regulation of illegal extraction of tunas from the sea, that it's unreported.Now, we must wait until ICCAT acts and if it fail, Atlantic bluefin tuna will be extinct!
Atlantic bluefin tuna are now on the brink of the collapse, that because of their properties and high value as one of the fishes used to prepare Sushi and Sashimi, that get us now to the OVERFISHING ( some of it illegal, unregulated and unreported) of the specie and reducing significatively their number.
Many important scientists support this idea, and recent studies of them show that this type of tuna has declined more than 80% in the last 40 years.
CITES (Convention on intennational trade in endangered spieces of wild fauna and flora) has try to regulate this situation by providing goverments with objective information to evaluate the overexplotation and for stablishment of protective measures. However, a proposal to save atlantic bluefin tuna in the last march was defeated because political games and backroom deals in despite of support of important comitees and countries.
Countries against this proposal argued that ICCAT (international commission for the conservation of atlantic tunas) should be the center to respond to the crisis of this tuna.
Actually, the main solution to aviod the overexplotation of Atlantic bluefish tuna and their future extinction is by suspending the fishery of this specie until strong managment and mesures are in place, and, of course, that this tuna shows signs of recovery. Another solution could be the regulation of illegal extraction of tunas from the sea, that it's unreported.
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