PARIS — The United States will push to further reduce fishing quotas for Atlantic bluefin tuna at a key multinational meeting, a senior official told AFP on Thursday.
The 48-member International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), convening in Paris through
ICCAT scientists calculate that extending the 2010 annual quota of 13,500 tonnes through 2013 would put the species on track for a 60-percent probability of reaching so-called "maximum sustainable yield" by 2022.
For Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a 60 percent chance of success is not good enough. "It needs to go further than that," she said.
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