Sayonara blue fin tuna!
If you were pinning your hopes (as I was) on the current CITES meeting for the UN to protect the last of the blue fin tuna population, then I’m sorry to tell you the tuna are SOL. In spite of incontrovertible scientific evidence that the fish population had collapsed and needed drastic protection, the CITES members decided to keep killing the fish because a ban would ‘devastate fishing economies.‘
I wonder what they think is going to happen when the blue fin tuna is practically extinct (in commercial terms) in a few years? Somebody else’s problem, I guess.
Well kudos to the plucky Prince of Monaco. I’ve come to the opinion that the republican form of government has become thoroughly compromised and is way overrated.
Stumble it!
Tags: Blue Fin Tuna, CITES, Prince of Monaco, United Nations