MAJORCA HOSTING GLOBAL TUNA SUMMIT

MAJORCA is this week hosting a meeting of the International Pink Tuna Conservation commission which will be attended by delegates from all over the world including the United Kingdom, the United States and the world's biggest consumer of pink tuna, Japan. The summit comes on the eve of the annual war waged by the Spanish authorities, the armed forces and Greenpeace against the so-called “pirate” fishing fleets which head to the Balearics to trawl for pink tuna, and other fish, using illegal nets. The meeting is being chaired, on behalf of the European Union, by the Spanish Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries and runs from April 19 to 21.
Apart from illegal fishing fleets, not only here in the Mediterranean but worldwide, other concerns are the over-fishing of pink tuna stocks and the lack of efficient management policies to Mediterranean tuna stocks.