Fw: Time running out to save bluefin tuna - sign petition

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Time running out to save bluefin tuna

 

The Atlantic bluefin tuna is an amazing creature. A warm-blooded fish, it

accelerates faster than a Porsche and covers thousands of kilometres in its

lifetime.

 

But the fish, which swims into the Mediterranean each year to reproduce, is

facing a crisis. Prized for sushi in Japan and across the world, the high

demand for this valuable fish has led to huge illegal industrial

overfishing. This has been fuelled in turn by the massive expansion of tuna

farms in the Mediterranean in the last ten years, where wild tuna are

caught, put in cages and fattened up for export.

 

Please sign our petition asking the European Union (EU) to support urgent

measures to save tuna – before it is too late.

If this unscrupulous fishing continues the species could be biologically and

commercially extinct in a few years.

There is one last chance to save the bluefin tuna. The International

Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is meeting this

month in Croatia and will decide how to manage the fishery in the

Mediterranean over the coming years.

 

Most of the illegal fishing of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean is by EU

fleets – yet Europe's representative at ICCAT is still resisting a strict

recovery plan.

 

Take action now and sign the e-petition, which WWF will present to the EU

representatives at the ICCAT meeting.

http://passport.panda.org/campaigns/action_epetition.cfm?uCampaignId=1441 & uA

ctionId=2181

 

Thank you,

 

WWF International

 

P.S. The more people who take action, the greater the chance we have of

stopping the hunt. So please forward this email to your friends and family

and ask for their support.

 

 

Time is running out to save bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean

http://passport.panda.org/campaigns/action_epetition.cfm?uCampaignId=1441 & uA

ctionId=2181