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Japanese fish dealers welcome tuna ban rejection |
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TOKYO—Japanese fish dealers on Friday welcomed the
rejection of a proposed trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna -- a prized
ingredient of sushi -- while urging that existing quotas be more
strictly enforced to protect the species from overfishing.
Thursday's vote at a U.N. meeting in Doha, Qatar, rejecting the ban was front-page news in all major Japanese newspapers Friday morning. Japan consumes about 80 percent of the world's Atlantic bluefin tuna, and the possibility of a ban had consumers and fish wholesalers worried that prices for the pink and red meat of the fish -- called "hon-maguro" here -- would soar or that it might even vanish from some menus. |
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33 Fishing Community Members Say Permit Bank, Giacalone are pluses for Gloucester
This permit bank is a true local treasure for our fishing community and related businesses. Its existence has been one of the only positive things to come to this fishing community in decades.
