meat is murder

As we continue to fish the planet into twelve stages of oblivion people come up with plans to only fish it into eleven stages of oblivion…

what a relief

Japan

Japan Agrees to Halve Fishing Quota of Southern Bluefin Tuna
By Tak Kumakura
Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) — Japan has agreed to reduce its annual fishing quota for southern bluefin tuna by half to 3,000 tons next year because of concern the stocks of the fish are falling to dangerously low levels, the Fisheries Agency said.
Japan accepted the reduction during a four-day meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna that ended Friday in the southern prefecture of Miyazaki, said Ryo Ohmori, an official of the ministry’s fisheries division.
Most of the southern bluefin tuna caught around the world are sold in Japan, which annually imports about 10,000 tons of the fish for use in sushi or sashimi. Bluefin tuna is prized as a delicacy in Japan because it’s fattier than bigeye tuna.
Bluefin tuna is selling at about 2,000 yen ($16.7) a kilogram at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market, while bigeye tuna costs about 800 yen a kilo, Ohmori said. The price of bluefin tuna may further increase as a result, he added.
Bluefin tuna is only available at high-priced sushi shops and restaurants, not at regular supermarkets.
Representatives from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and the European Commission gathered for the commission meeting and decided on the new quotas.
The participants agreed to cut combined catches of the southern bluefin tuna by some 20 percent to 11,530 tons for 2007 from 14,030 tons for 2006.

Europe

EUROPE’S fishermen should stop catching North Sea cod and Bay of Biscay anchovy next year if the two species are to stand a chance of survival after years of chronic overfishing, scientists said today.
Despite improvements in the numbers of northern hake, herring and mackerel, other species living in northeast Atlantic waters need more time to rebuild stocks, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) said.
European Commission fisheries experts use the ICES advice to calculate quotas for each commercial species for the following year. These are presented to EU ministers for approval.
For North Sea cod, scientists have repeatedly said numbers are so low that the only solution is to ban fishing otherwise cod will disappear from these waters altogether.
The Commission has usually rejected this idea for fear of wrecking communities that depend on fishing for a livelihood.
Now, its focus is on multi-annual management where a limited amount of fishing, strictly controlled, is allowed.
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all very helpful for the individual fish…who according to this article about fish pain, do suffer…