According to the news report the Spanish government plans to wait for the results of a scientific study this year before deciding whether to back a temporary global ban on bluefish tuna fishing. This week the European Union has given its provisional backing for such a ban, which would throw the huge market for Japanese sushi into turmoil.
Spain’s ministry of agriculture informed that a scientific study on the issue is expected to be released next month, and the results will be analysed at a meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas in November. The ministry recommended waiting for the study “before adopting other conservation measures.”
The proposals already put to CITES which states that the UN agency against illegal wildlife trade, tuna stocks are so fragile that the species should be classified as being under threat of extinction. Some 80 percent of Atlantic blue-fin tuna fished out of the Mediterranean ends up in the Japanese market.
