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Japan and Europe agree to reduce quotas of bluefin tuna

Jan 31, 2007, 10:00 GMT

Tokyo - Japan and the European Union agreed on Wednesday to reduce their catch quotas of bluefin tuna in the next four years at the end of a three-day meeting held in Tokyo. Japan plans to cut its bluefin tuna catch by 23 per cent to 2,175 tons by 2010, while Europe agreed to reduce 20.75 per cent to 14,504 tons, local media reported. The decisions came at a follow-up meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) as an effort to combat depleting tunafish population. At the initial meeting in November, 43 participating members agreed to limit the global catch quota to 29,500 tons in 2007 in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, a reduction from last year's quota of 32,000 tons. The members of the Madrid-based commission include Japan, the United States, the European Union and China. The ICCAT and four other international tuna bodies held their first joint meeting in Japanese western city of Kobe last week and adopted an action plan to cooperate in tuna conservation. But that meeting closed with no concrete measures. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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