Monday, April 19, 2010

Maybe good news for some kinds of tuna

According to reports (which are scant), the Pacific island nations which are in the area where about a quarter of the world's tuna are caught want to get more profits from the fishery -- and also (gasp) conserve it better:

Eight Pacific nations look for a bigger slice of the tuna harvest


Now, that sounds bad as a title. But it says in this short article:

The meeting in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, will discuss plans to tighten conservation controls, reduce annual catch limits and increase revenue to the islands.

The Director of the new headquarters for the Parties to the Nauru Agreement, Transform Aqorau, says at present there are far too many days available for fishing and too many boats fishing.


Let's hope they can cut both of them back.

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