Looting the Seas

Made in coproduction with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in 2010, 'Looting the Seas' exposed glaring inaccuracies and inconsistencies in the ICCAT bluefin tuna tracking system (BCD) lauded by officials as safeguarding Mediterranean bluefin tuna stocks. On 20 November 2011 at its 22nd meeting in Istanbul, almost nearly 50 ICCAT (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) member countries agreed to overhaul the BCD's archaic, paper-based methodology and replace it with a new, digitalized system to deter the rampant black market in bluefin tuna. Read the ICIJ Press Release on the meeting at this link - http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/11/20/7456/fishing-nations-approve-overhaul-bl...

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Atlantic
• Bluefin
• Tuna
• oceans
• illegal
• fishing
• overfishing
• sushi
• EU
• ICCAT
• IUU
• investigative
• sea
• tuna
• ranching

[guitarkid177]

I love those conveyor belts at Japanese restaurants.

[MrTatts64]

The only way to save the likes of the Blue Fin Tuna etc, is to render them completely worthless. Its all about $'s, £'s and BIG buisiness.

The govt really doesnt help matters by pushing the use of Omega 3 etc. It may be good for us to take it, but it was even better for the fish!

Fish farming wont work either as stats show that it takes around 3 to 5 kilos of fish meal to grow a kilo of fish in a fish farm.

[lordkoos]

Overpopulation is the root of most of our problems, but no one talks about that any more. I remember Zero Population Growth being an issue in the 1970s.

[MrCuriosity63]

What does it take for humans to see the light of the future where we live in harmony with nature as it was intended before the world became greedy and reckless. Video's like this piss me off. Are there no thinking humans with a heart anymore?? Killing for a buck is never ever gonna be sustainable!!