Illegal fishing hits tuna stocks

[shekes]

Illegal fishing hits tuna stocks (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5150446.stm)

Bluefin tuna stocks in the East Atlantic and the Mediterranean are being stripped bare by illegal fishing, WWF has warned in a report.

Traditional tuna-trap fishermen in the Gibraltar Straits have caught 80% less fish in the last three years compared with the 1990s, the report claims.

It also says that demand for tuna in the UK is being driven by "fast sushi" bars and by supermarket sales.

Fleets exceed quotas and some are failing to report catches, WWF says.

The fishery is running out of control, fuelled by the unrestricted expansion of tuna farms across the Mediterranean Sea and driven by the high prices paid by traders in Japan and elsewhere.

The report's main findings include:

* Real catches are much higher than quotas set by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), which regulates the fishery
* The last Mediterranean breeding refuges of bluefin tuna are being plundered
* Under-reporting of tuna catches is widespread

WWF found that the annual fishing quota of 32,000 tonnes, set by ICCAT, has been smashed for the past two years. In 2004, the actual catch was 44,948 tonnes and this rose to 45,547 in 2005.

The campaigner says the real figure may be well over 50,000 tonnes.

Fleets from several countries around the Mediterranean are implicated, including some from the European Union, says WWF.
"The European Commission risks bearing witness to the collapse of this centuries-old fishery," said Dr Simon Cripps, director of WWF's global marine programme.

"We urge EU Fisheries Commissioner [Joe] Borg to show leadership and call for an immediate total closure of the fishery, and request that he supports strong management measures at this November's ICCAT meeting that guarantee a future for the fishery."

Over the last two years, Britain imported 1,613 tonnes of processed fresh and frozen bluefin tuna, which exclusively came from the Mediterranean, worth some £8.6m (12m euros).

A spokesperson for Tesco said it was the supermarket's policy to obtain its food from sustainable sources wherever possible.

WWF called for an immediate closure of the fishery - pending the implementation of a recovery plan and "strong" management measures.


BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5150446.stm)

[shekes]

Who cares?

[Mattcomptonassvanhorn]

Not I.

[Guinness]

Everyone should. :)
Guinness

[P3R3]

No one cares till the tuna is gone. Bluefin is one of the rare treasures this earth offers and should be protected as such.

[shekes]

It is particularly depressing that even on this website noone shows interest.

Bluefin is doomed because they dont fit in a MFKers tank. Arowanas are because they do.

We'll be left with dogs, cats, pigs, cow, chickens, rats and roaches.

[davo]

i care. i love tuna, food and to look at in the sea!

[SiestaSkyy]

really sad thing is the fish is being ran over a trend. eat sushi its the cool thing to do.

[ewurm]

i care. i love tuna, food and to look at in the sea!

I love tuna too, but I can't seem to catch any.

[magic]

this is exactly why you should support american commercial fishing.
america=regulations
world=nothing (often)

so as commercial fishing gets outlawed and banned in america we just import it from other places. kinda out of sight out of mind thing, it doesnt hurt our enviroment so who cares?

i would like to hear both sides, if their catches have gotten so low the fishermen would say something about it, i dont entirely trust WWF cause they are a super enviromental organization so they may exaggerate things. i say hear both sides and make up your mind.

[lil_blue]

actually, this has been a problem for a while, especially with mexican fishing boats

it used to be that they were hurting populations of dolphins by using a certain type of net, but i think "chicken of the sea" is being exploited as a resource, and may run out soon

[Vince]

Everyone should keep "two fin blunas" because they are now going into the endagered species lists. they might get more expensive later. After the blufin is gone, then it is too late for these people ot realize, "What have we done?!!!" sad story.

[stotty]

This was the first page off a post i did ages back:



Angel Pousada was found guilty of illegally taking £42,000 worth of hake back to Spain, unrecorded in his logbook. Falmouth magistrates fined him £300. (S Telegraph 12/4/98)

look wat happens in the U.S

THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE OF THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA HAS SENTENCED A MAN TO 3 YEARS PROBATION AND A $200,000.00 FINE FOR ILLEGALLY IMPORTING NORTHERN SNAKEHEADS FROM SOUTH KOREA. DANIEL RHEE PLEADED GUILTY TO SEVEN FELONY COUNTS FOR SMUGGLING AND ILLEGALLY TRANSPORTING THE FISH. AS PART OF THE SENTENCE, RHEE WILL ALSO HAVE TO PAY FOR ADVERTISEMENTS THAT WILL RUN IN NEWSPAPERS TO WARN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE DANGERS POSED BY SNAKEHEADS.

Be warned do not flush snakehead down toilet could cost you $$$$$$$$$$ thats one big fine


We live in a very :swear: up world my friend

[MV2006]

Man that is not cool at all I sure am going to miss those tuna salad sandwiches .

[magic]

this is a serious issue, but you guys are over reacting making it seem like the tuna are already gone, if measures are put in place to properly manage the fishing of them we will always get our tuna sandwiches :thumbsup:

[stotty]

It is particularly depressing that even on this website noone shows interest.

Bluefin is doomed because they dont fit in a MFKers tank. Arowanas are because they do.

We'll be left with dogs, cats, pigs, cow, chickens, rats and roaches.


Not in the UK the cows will all have BSE and the chickens will have Bird Flu could be ok on rats and roaches though.
We have had similar discussions before human greed comes before all as with the Whales if there is a price on its head we will sell it.As I pointed out earlier the fines don’t match the crime we will one day hunt them down to nothing

take a look at this we will eat the planet out of fish



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/07/11/boclo11.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/07/11/bomain.html

[shekes]

True! We forgot the pigeons, moths, mosquitos, flees, lice etc. Human's best friends.

"we can no longer pretend that the truth has been kept from us" MFKers.

I'd start by making it illegal to preach reproduction like the Pope does. Holocaust denial is illegal. Why should it be legal to tell people to reproduce when human population is already 3 times the size of what this planet can possibly feed? It entails deaths of billions of people and is therefore an act of unprecedented genocide, pescicide etc etc etc

[stotty]

True! We forgot the pigeons, moths, mosquitos, flees, lice etc. Human's best friends.

"we can no longer pretend that the truth has been kept from us" MFKers.

I'd start by making it illegal to preach reproduction like the Pope does. Holocaust denial is illegal. Why should it be legal to tell people to reproduce when human population is already 3 times the size of what this planet can possibly feed? It entails deaths of billions of people and is therefore an act of unprecedented genocide, pescicide etc etc etc


343,000 Amount by which the population of all European Union Countries combined grew in 2000.
343,000 Amount by which India's population grew in the first week of 2001. :WHOA: so my man is that a good Catholic following. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. You just need to Educate the right people.

And you know i would shoot and eat the pigeons:D

[necrocanis]

mmmmm, pigeons!

[shekes]

Stotty,

Sure Asia is a bigger problem. It's just that they are Third World and don't know any better.
The Pope resides in a G7 and does it right to our faces.

[Snake_Eyes]

This was the first page off a post i did ages back:



Angel Pousada was found guilty of illegally taking £42,000 worth of hake back to Spain, unrecorded in his logbook. Falmouth magistrates fined him £300. (S Telegraph 12/4/98)

look wat happens in the U.S

THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE OF THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA HAS SENTENCED A MAN TO 3 YEARS PROBATION AND A $200,000.00 FINE FOR ILLEGALLY IMPORTING NORTHERN SNAKEHEADS FROM SOUTH KOREA. DANIEL RHEE PLEADED GUILTY TO SEVEN FELONY COUNTS FOR SMUGGLING AND ILLEGALLY TRANSPORTING THE FISH. AS PART OF THE SENTENCE, RHEE WILL ALSO HAVE TO PAY FOR ADVERTISEMENTS THAT WILL RUN IN NEWSPAPERS TO WARN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE DANGERS POSED BY SNAKEHEADS.

Be warned do not flush snakehead down toilet could cost you $$$$$$$$$$ thats one big fine


We live in a very :swear: up world my friend
WOW!! thats one helluva fine. :eek:

[lil_blue]

well, they arent gonna run out anytime soon, probably after i die

i try not to worry too much about whats happening outside of my life, gets me too stressed, if china wants to fu** them selves starving, thats their fu**ing problem

[stotty]

Stotty,

Sure Asia is a bigger problem. It's just that they are Third World and don't know any better.
The Pope resides in a G7 and does it right to our faces.





You are quite right things need to change my father was a Catholic I say was he is still with us just things have changed his ideas on life. No more said.


The problem being (I can’t believe we are have an ethics debate on a fish forum) the church, no all religions in general are out dated. Contraception was disallowed by all Christian faiths until the 1930s. Ironically Islam does not make any explicit statements about the morality of contraception, but contains statements encouraging procreation. But it goes on even the so-called "religious" wars have often been fought for motives of greed or power under the guise of religious conviction. War means death, death culls the population they then encourage people to reproduce thus giving more people of that race to fight wars and take over. Hens no contraception, bring back the Spanish Inquisition.:screwy:

[Ang]

this is a serious issue, but you guys are over reacting making it seem like the tuna are already gone, if measures are put in place to properly manage the fishing of them we will always get our tuna sandwiches :thumbsup:

Except that measures for these types of things are never put in place until the last possible second.
Thats why nothing is done to help a species of animal until its already endangered. Then you have to make sure everyone knows about the law and still have to enforce it. By then, who knows.

I dont think we have to worry too much about Tuna going extinct, :grinno: but what you said just made me think of other animal species.

[shekes]

Happiness doesn't cost the Earth (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5169448.stm)