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| Tuna groups tackle overfishing | Tuna groups tackle overfishing |
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| The first international plan to try and stop the overfishing of tuna has been adopted by regulators meeting in Japan. | The first international plan to try and stop the overfishing of tuna has been adopted by regulators meeting in Japan. |
| The plan called for better monitoring and co-ordination across regions, as well as action against illegal fishing. | The plan called for better monitoring and co-ordination across regions, as well as action against illegal fishing. |
| Delegates from the world's five tuna bodies called the plan a first step towards arresting a decline in stocks. | Delegates from the world's five tuna bodies called the plan a first step towards arresting a decline in stocks. |
| But conservationists said the measures were not enough, blaming illegal and unregulated fishing and unsustainable quotas for tuna's dramatic decline. | But conservationists said the measures were not enough, blaming illegal and unregulated fishing and unsustainable quotas for tuna's dramatic decline. |
| Japan called the five-day meeting in the western city of Kobe. | |
| The country consumes a quarter of the world's tuna and a rise in the popularity of Japanese sushi and sashimi has further impacted on tuna stocks. | |
| The plan, agreed by delegates from 60 countries, recognised "the critical need to arrest further stock decline in the case of depleted stocks (and) maintain and rebuild tuna stocks to sustainable levels." | |
| It called for a coordinated effort to track the tuna trade and broader sharing of information globally. | |
| Participants also committed to cooperation through regional fisheries management organisations. | |
| "Maybe the steps we made this week seem small, but this is a big step, a historical step, I think," Masanori Miyahara of Japan's Fisheries Agency said. | |
| But conservation groups were less positive. | |
| "We do see this meeting as a failure," said Alistair Graham of WWF International. |