Warning as bluefin tuna fishing season starts

Article reports that fishing vessels fanned out across the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic in mid April 2009 as the bluefin tuna fishing season got underway with environmentalists warning that consumers are hunting the fish to extinction.

Wikipedia: Northern bluefin tuna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_bluefin_tuna

WWF: What We Do: Critical Regions: Mediterranean: Our Solutions: Marine: Bluefin tuna http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/mediterranean/about/marine/bluefin_tuna/

WWF: Press Release, 14.4.09: Mediterranean bluefin tuna stocks collapsing now as fishing season opens http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/mediterranean/about/marine/bluefin_tuna/?162001/Mediterranean-bluefin-tuna-stocks-collapsing-now-as-fishing-season-opens

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

Council of the European Union: Council Regulation (EC) No 302/2009 of 6 April 2009 concerning a multiannual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, amending Regulation (EC) No 43/2009 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1559/2007 (OJ L96, 15.04.09, p1) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:096:0001:0030:EN:PDF

ESO: Background information: Fisheries: EU shows its full commitment to bluefin tuna conservation http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-fisheries-eu-shows-its-full-commitment-to-bluefin-tuna-conservation/

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