Black market loots the seas of tuna

As regulators gather in Paris in November 2010 to decide the fate of the Atlantic bluefin, a seven-month investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has found that behind the plummeting stocks is a decade-long history of rampant fraud and lack of official oversight. Each year, thousands of tons of fish have been illegally caught and traded. At its peak – between 1998 and 2007– this black market included more than one out of every three bluefin caught.

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Website: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/icij/

ICIJ: Looting the seas, November 2010 http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/2651/

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Website: The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) http://www.iccat.int/en/

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