Speech: ICCAT to keep momentum on recovery of fish stocks

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Series Details SPEECH/13/954 (21.11.13)
Publication Date 21/11/2013
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Text of a speech by Maria Damanaki, European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries at the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), Cape Town, 21 November 2013. He was glad to announce that Bluefin tuna is officially recovering. This emblematic stock was utterly overfished and almost doomed in 2010.
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EurActiv, 20.11.13: Conservationists warn against tuna quota increase http://www.euractiv.com/sustainability/conservationists-warn-tuna-quota-news-531802
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