Tuna cutbacks fall short of expectations
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Cutbacks to tuna fishing agreed at a crucial Pacific regional fisheries conference to prevent over-fishing have fallen short of expectations, the head of the fisheries management body said yesterday.
Glenn Hurry, executive director of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, said he was “disappointed” in the lack of teeth in the conservation plan adopted at the meeting in the Australian city of Cairns. The meeting agreed on Friday to reduce the longline bigeye tuna catch by 10-30 percent for foreign fishing nations. It also agreed to freeze the number of foreign purse seine and longline vessels targeting bigeye tuna for sashimi that can operate in the region. The commission will consider limits on purse seine fishing for after 2014.
“I am disappointed that again it was a one-year measure... when we really needed a three-to-five-year measure with tough controls in it,” said Hurry.
Experts said the reductions would not stop over-fishing.
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