Iccat

The position of Japan, which consumes about 80 percent of the bluefin tuna caught in the Mediterranean, "is very simple," Mr. Miyahara said: A different organization, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, known as Iccat, should manage bluefin tuna catches and protection, not Cites.

News On Japan New York Times 2010

The position of Japan, which consumes about 80 percent of the bluefin tuna caught in the Mediterranean, "is very simple," Mr. Miyahara said: A different organization, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, known as Iccat, should manage bluefin tuna catches and protection, not Cites.

NYT > Home Page By DAVID JOLLY 2010

The position of Japan, which consumes about 80 percent of the bluefin tuna caught in the Mediterranean, "is very simple," Mr. Miyahara said: A different organization, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, known as Iccat, should manage bluefin tuna catches and protection, not Cites.

NYT > Home Page By DAVID JOLLY 2010

I co-wrote an open letter with Prince Albert of Monaco on June the 5th of this year, and we proposed that the bluefin tuna should be taken out of the hands of this obviously incompetent body Iccat and regulated by Cites, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

Louise McCready: A Future Without Fish: End of the Line Casts Scary Forecast for the Sea 2009

They could not get Iccat [the U. N.'s International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas] to do the right thing; they didn't try hard enough; they allowed the vested interests to talk; they allowed the Japanese tuna traders to run the show through their influence money and their very dubious connections; and that is a total indictment of the way we run the sea.

Louise McCready: A Future Without Fish: End of the Line Casts Scary Forecast for the Sea 2009

This collapse is the result of a colossal failure by the U. N.'s International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat).

It's Not Too Late to Save the Tuna Albert Grimaldi 2009

Canada and Norway, nations that have consistently argued for rational management -- was when the Iccat set a total allowable catch of 22,000 tons this year for the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, despite its own scientists recommending a quota of 8,000 to 15,000 tons.

It's Not Too Late to Save the Tuna Albert Grimaldi 2009

Pew and other conservation groups have called on Iccat member nations, which are to meet next month in Istanbul, to acknowledge the scale of the problem and to improve the catch documentation by introducing a more rigorous electronic tracking plan.

NYT > Home Page By DAVID JOLLY 2011

Faced with calls to end the catch completely in 2008, members of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, or Iccat, agreed to regulate fishing more strictly, adding documentation requirements and reducing the overall catch.

NYT > Home Page By DAVID JOLLY 2011

In its study, Pew looked at official Iccat catch reports for the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, which showed 395,554 tons of bluefin being caught from 1998 to 2010.

NYT > Home Page By DAVID JOLLY 2011