Some good news on the tuna fishery?

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Some good news on the tuna fishery?

Postby Neil Fitzgerald » Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:44 pm

At a recent commission meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) in Korea, 17 Pacific island nations brought forward an ambitious resolution – to close over 50 million square kms of ocean to tuna purse-seine fishing.


http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/end_of_the_line.html

Sounds promising. Now, how about longlines...
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