Saving Seafood: Snowe Blasts NOAA For “Selling-Out” U.S. Tuna Fisherman


Atlantic bluefin tuna
Photo credit: National Geographic

U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, today blasted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for a position announced yesterday by NOAA  Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco at a meeting of the International Commission on Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) currently underway in Paris, France. 

During an interview, Dr. Lubchenco asserted that NOAA believes a reduction in the total allowable catch of bluefin tuna is warranted in both the heavily overfished eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean stock—caught mainly by European and African nations—and the western Atlantic stock which is harvested primarily by the U.S. and Canada.  While data has shown that the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean stock has been consistently and excessively over-exploited, the most recent scientific report released by ICCAT’s Standing Committee on Research and Statistics in September 2010 shows the western stock is in far better shape, thanks largely to strict management and conservation measures enforced by the U.S. and adhered to by domestic fishermen.
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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 11/23/2010 1:30 PM
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