U.S. Backs Proposed Trading Ban on Bluefin Tuna – NYTimes.com
“We recognize that the parties to ICCAT took some unprecedented steps,” Strickland said. “However, in light of the serious compliance problems that have plagued the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean fishery and the fact that the 2010 quota level adopted by ICCAT is not as low as we believe is needed, the United States continues to have serious concerns about the long-term viability of either the fish or the fishery.”
This is troubling. Another poor decision made by our federal employees, acting in the interest of an agenda on behalf of anti for profit domestic fishing ENGO’s. Canada and The USA have been in tight control of their GBFT fisheries and have been compliant with the International management regulations, yet this stands to threaten the economic viability of our domestic BFT fishery, which is sustainable and managed well, VS. the W Europeans who continue to be out of compliance and have overharvested BFT manifold, for years now. Clearly there is an agenda.
There is still further action needed for a CITES listing to take place, but in the meantime, this lack of support for our fishermen and the people involved, by our federal govt. adds to the seeming epidemic mismanagement of our fisheries and the breadth of the influence of these so called conservation groups like PEW who use their money to malign our LAW ABIDING FISHERMEN who have fished responsibly rather than actually using it to mitigate the causes of GBFT overfishing, namely European fishing interests manipulation of political interests acting to continue allowing the overharvest. Their money would be much better spent there, where it would have a direct effect, much more so than this impotent and anti American act from our US Dept of Fish and Wildlife ASSt director Strickland.
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