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"en.20120523.15.3-220-000"2
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"In November 2010, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) amended its multiannual recovery plan for the eastern stock of bluefin tuna. As the EU is a contracting party to ICCAT, it is obliged to transpose those amendments into EU law. The history of management of the bluefin tuna fishery is long and complicated. Though the stock has been fished for millennia, the problems began in earnest in the 1990s when the practice of caging bluefin in order to fatten them up for the Japanese market was introduced. The fishery for the eastern bluefin is the most tightly regulated fishery in the EU and probably among the most regulated in the world. The fishery is an unusual one in some ways. What makes the fishery unusual is the extraordinary price that the fish obtain on the market and the degree of concentration of the market in one country, Japan. This led to the dominant role in the fishery played by the combined purse seining/tuna fattening operations. I believe that extensive management and control measures in the recovery plan are needed, as well as the detailed catch documentation scheme for monitoring international trade. ICCAT members, in many cases, simply do not have the means to control the fishery. In many cases, they also lack the political will. The result is the annual amendments to both the recovery plan and the catch documentation scheme. In addition, the ICCAT recovery plan is less ambitious than EU domestic legislation."@en1
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