Read the reports from Oceana, our partners in Doha, other big NGOs, and Charles Clover from The End of the Line’s campaign to save the bluefin.
Since 2008, MarViva and Oceana has partnered with Oceana in the Mediterranean region in order to investigate cases of illegal fishing and identify marine areas that should be protected because of their ecologic worth. With MarViva´s support, Oceana has sent three experts to the Doha Summit, where the future of bluefin tuna and whether it will be included in Article 1 of the Convention On International Trade In Endangered Species Of Wild Fauna And Flora (known as CITES) is being discussed.
- CNN Interviews Ted Danson about The End of the Line Actor´s efforts to save tuna Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
- My fight for fish. By: Charles Clover It was when a third of the cinema audience sprang to its feet shouting at us, and my wife, fearing violence, slipped out of the side door, that I began wondering if we had taken on more than we could handle. The screening last month of The End of the Line in Malta, the centre ...
- Japan’s eco-credentials assailed. By: Eric Johnston 2010 has been designated the international year of biodiversity, and international attention on Japanese policies toward such endangered species comes at a time when the government is stepping up domestic efforts to prepare for COP10. Be Sociable, Share! ...
- History repeats itself: the path to extinction is still paved with greed and waste. By: Jeremy Hance The story of the Atlantic bluefin tuna is a long and mostly irrational one—that is if one looks at the Atlantic bluefin from a scientific, ecologic, moral, or common-sense perspective. Be Sociable, Share! ...
- Turning My Back, Sadly, on Bluefin Tuna. By: Josh Ozersky I ate my last bite of bluefin tuna the other night. It came at SHO Shaun Hergatt, a luxurious restaurant in the Wall Street area known for its eponymous chef’s penchant for using the best ingredients from around the world. The bluefin was no exception. Served on a pristine plate with fennel gelée, young ginger ...
- The whaler wears no clothes. By: Rémi Parmentier I told Sue Lieberman yesterday that I was not sure if Charles Clover’s Pearl Harbour analogy in The Sunday Times to describe the bullying by Japan of this month’s CITES conference would hit the right chord in Tokyo. She said, “probably not, but it certainly felt that way”. Be Sociable, Share! ...
- How Japanese sushi offensive sank move to protect sharks and bluefin tuna. By: Justin McCurry Japan’s aggressive lobbying operation in the days before the vote will be familiar to veterans of International Whaling Committee meetings, where poor island nations vote with Japan in return for investment in their fishing industries. Be Sociable, Share! ...
- How Japanese sushi offensive sank move to protect sharks and bluefin tuna. By: Justin McCurry Aggressive lobbying operation borrowed tactics used at whaling negotiations. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
- CITES: championing extinction? By: Willie Mackenzie The upshot is, more than ever it’s up to us to do what our governments have failed to do. We need to make the continued trade in endangered species like bluefin politically, socially, and morally unacceptable… and we need to remove the market that makes it so lucrative. Because our collective governments don’t seem up ...
- The U.N.’s Ocean Death Panel. By: David Helvarg. After all, there’re always more fish in the sea. Until there’s not. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
- A toothless West watches as Japan guts fish stocks. By: Charles Clover The one thing that may not surprise you is that scalloped hammerhead fins are among the most prized for the Chinese delicacy known as shark fin soup. “Finning” remains one of the most disgusting fishing activities. Sharks are caught, their fins are chopped off and they are dumped back alive into the ocean to suffer ...
- Japan win on bluefin tuna showed deft hand at CITES endangered species meeting. By: Gavin Blair The experienced and large delegation from Japan showed a deft hand in its win against a bluefin tuna ban and other measures at the 175-nation CITES meeting on endangered species in Qatar. Be Sociable, Share! ...
- Japan, 40 Marine World, 0. By: The Fisheries Secretariat from Norway Observers drew parallels to the failed UN Climate meeting in Copenhagen and environmentalists declared the outcome a “tragedy of the oceans” as the CITES meeting in Doha ended with not one marine species proposed for protection being granted it. Be Sociable, Share! ...
- Japanese sushi offensive sinks bid to protect sharks and bluefin tuna Global conference to protect endangered species pronounced ‘disaster’ by conservation groups after aggressive lobbying. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
- Commerce Trumps Science at CITES, Threatened Sharks and Bluefin TunaStill at Risk Pew calls conference on global trade in endangered species a majordisappointment Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
- CITES: Murky waters for marine conservation. By: Richard Black It’s worth recalling that the countries and campaign groups arguing for bans on tuna and shark trading through CITES were doing so only because Iccat and its fellows have so signally failed to live up to their mandates of conserving the stocks, year after year. Be Sociable, Share! ...
- Fishy business. How the elephants’ success hurt the bluefin tuna. This year at its meeting in Doha, everything changed. Seemingly alarmed by the large number of proposals to list marine species, Japan turned up in force. Japan’s 30-strong delegation was as big as the one from America. And thanks to its “capacity building” efforts—in other words, providing finance for projects in developing countries—Japan was also ...
- Fish deserve as much protection as rhinos and tigers. By: Frank Pope Do the emotionless eyes of sea creatures leave our hearts cold? Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
- “Try one piece:” During wildlife meeting, bluefin’s on agenda—and menu. By: Michael Casey For months preceding this week’s CITES meeting, the Japanese lobbied governments big and small. And the night before the vote at the 175-nation group, they rolled out their secret weapon. Be Sociable, Share! ...
- Little celebration as Cites ends. By: Nick Clark How strong an international body like Cites will be when it has no legal powers to enforce its rulings on member countries, is anyone’s guess. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
