The Maine senator acknowledges that tuna is overfished, but she says U.S. fishermen are harvesting the fish responsibly, unlike their counterparts in some other nations. Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe is reiterating her opposition to a proposal to list the bluefin tun as an endangered species. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration yesterday agreed to consider whether the fish meets the criteria for listing under the Endangered Species Act.
The petition that sparked the review was submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco, California. Snowe acknowledges that bluefin tuna is overfished, but she says putting the fish on the endangered species list will punish the very fishermen who have "led the world" in efforts to conserve it.
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