date:May 27, 2014
bluefin tuna weigh around 680kg /1500 pounds.
The EU has offered its assurances on the strict controls in place to police overfishing. The European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanaki said Friday: The EU has been working relentlessly to protect bluefin tuna: we have reduced our fishing fleet, we have tightened controls and we have played a consistently active role within the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT), which is responsible