Bluefin tuna: still alarm. More than 141% of the permitted fish are caught

    Bluefin tuna: still alarm. More than 141% of the permitted fish are caught

    In 2010 we consumed 141% more bluefin tuna than the limits allowed by ICCAT

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    Il bluefin tuna is still in danger. According to a new report by the Pew Environment Group, released a few days ago and appeared yesterday in the Washington Post, only in 2010 a quantity of fish that exceeds the 141% the quota authorized by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, theICCAT.





    Not to mention the huge quantities of bluefin tuna traded since black market, which further highlight the extreme pressure on the stocks of one of the most expensive fish in the world, putting itsextinction.

    The observation of the Pew Environment Group is based on a scientific study that examined the waters ranging from the eastern Atlantic to the Mediterranean. This means that in Europe it was sold a far greater quantity of tuna than the catches officially registered by fishermen, 490 thousand tons, therefore over 100 thousand tons more than the limits established by ICCAT, for a slice of the market that in the last 12 years has reached 2 billion euro ($ 2,7 billion).

    The Executive Commission of the European Union immediately highlighted the issues relating to catch reporting and explained that one will soon be advanced proposal for electronic surveillance at the meeting of theICCAT, from 11 to 19 November, a Istanbul! , in Turkey.

    "The question is 'how to change', and we are convinced that electronic control is better and more efficient," said the European Commission spokesperson. Oliver Drewes.

    According to the Pew Environment Group with an electronic tracking system, a barcode could be provided for each bluefin tuna caught which would allow the fish to be followed from the ocean to the tables.



    It is necessary, according to the environmental group that the Commission "Act immediately, in particular by putting in place an electronic catch documentation system that would provide more accurate and more easily controllable information."

    Francesca Mancuso

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