This is how the world ends

France has to decide whether or not to join the endangered species ban for bluefin tuna:

France set to decide on bluefin tuna ban

"French fishermen are urging the government to resist pressure from green groups when it decides on Monday whether to join a global ban on trade of the overfished bluefin tuna.

Prime Minister Francois Fillon is to announce whether France is in favour of adding Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna to a list drawn up by CITES, the convention aimed at ensuring the survival of threatened species.

The stance taken by France, which has a large bluefin tuna fishing fleet, will weigh heavily in the European Union's position, to be announced on Wednesday.

The national fishermen's committee said the government "must not give in to pressure from" green groups and argued that scientists were divided as to whether a ban was necessary to save tuna stocks.

"Showing too much haste to satisfy environmental fantasies risks destroying an entire sector of French fishing," wrote the committee.

(Actually, just let us do it ourselves! Au revoir!)

The certainty that overfishing bluefin tuna will wipe the stock down below rehabilitation levels is even higher than the strong scientific certainty that the world will warm up by about 3 degrees Centigrade by the end of this century."

The French fishermen will be one of the groups demonstrating how to lead themselves to destruction of their way of life. Ask any Chesapeake Bay waterman.

Oh yeah -- a 513 pound bluefin tuna sold in Japan for $177,000. That's... about $345 a pound.

That's...

...

insane.