http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/18/tech-bluefin-tuna-ban.html
A U.S.-backed proposal to ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna prized in sushi was rejected Thursday by a UN wildlife meeting, with scores of developing nations joining Japan in opposing a measure they feared would devastate fishing economies.
A chef slices high-grade fatty Atlantic bluefin tuna at a sushi restaurant in Tokyo. (Itsuo Inouye/Associated Press) It was a stunning setback for conservationists who had hoped the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, would give the iconic fish a lifeline. They joined the proposal’s sponsor Monaco in arguing that extreme measures were necessary because the stocks have fallen by 75 per cent due to widespread overfishing.
Japan is increasingly hampering environmental efforts around the world in connection to the oceans because of it’s overwhelming greed and short-sightedness with its fishing industries. Perhaps due to their bloated deficit and economy that is on near collapse they are desperately trying to bail out the water in their sinking ship but in the process they are taking the rest of us down with them. Their fishing industry isn’t going to save their economy, nothing next to a complete reset will save their dying economy and yet here they are grabbing at straws, flailing in the water like a drowning man, taking down any unfortunately passerby they can grab with them.
