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Quota increase puts tuna on track to extinction
Quota increase puts tuna on track to extinction says Greenpeace
Auckland, 17 February 2011
The increased quota for southern bluefin tuna puts the species on the fast track to extinction, says Greenpeace.
The Ministry of Fisheries announced this afternoon that the quota for southern bluefin tuna will be increased for the second year in a row.
Greenpeace New Zealand Oceans Campaigner Karli Thomas says it is obscene to raise the quota for a species already listed as critically endangered.
“We simply should not be fishing for a species that is this close to extinction” she says.
“Southern bluefin stocks are down to 4.6 per cent and New Zealand has more than doubled the quota in the last five years (1). We are talking about a species that’s in as much strife as Maui’s dolphins and the kakapo.”
Worldwide, bluefin catches have been reduced in response to declining numbers.
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