A loophole in rules governing Mediterranean blue-fin tuna fishing means the
species could disappear from the region within just a few years, claims a
forthcoming report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The European Union
sets quotas for direct fishing and farming, but not for fish that are caught and
fattened up in cages before slaughter. Such 鈥減ost-harvesting farms鈥 produced
11,000 tonnes of tuna over the past year, compared with an estimated 24,000
tonnes caught directly, the report said. The total quota for tuna in the
Mediterranean and East Atlantic is only 29,000 tonnes a year.
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