UN Blockage Of Bluefin Ban = End Of Species, But Japanese PM Happy - Prices Won't Go Up!

[hatrack]

DOHA: Fishing nations have voted down environmentalists, with a US-backed proposal to ban export of the Atlantic bluefin tuna overwhelmingly rejected at a UN wildlife meeting. The decision has been described as the end for the species. The US and European Union, which had backed the ban, expressed regret at the decision in Qatar as environmental groups issued dire forecasts of annihilation for the costly fish.

Patrick Van Klaveren, head of the Monaco delegation that submitted the ban proposal, said the UN body had sounded the death knell for bluefin tuna. ''It will not be that is the ruin of professional ,'' he said. ''It will be nature that lays down the sanction, and it will be beyond appeal.''

Japan won over scores of poorer nations with a campaign that played on fears a ban would devastate their economies. Tokyo also raised doubts that such a radical move was scientifically sound. ''It was good,'' Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told reporters after the vote. ''It means the import of bluefin tuna will continue … the price of bluefin tuna will not rise further.''

In another blow to conservationists, a proposal at the meeting to ban the international sale of polar bear skins failed to pass.

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http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/rejected-trade-ban-sounds-death-knell-for-bluefin-20100319-qm5l.html

[Joey Kidd]

1. K&R

:(

[Statistical]

2. Well at least they get cheap tuna....

while it lasts.

I wonder if any group is doing a "Noah's ark" type projects collecting and storing DNA. Given that we seems hell bent on killing off as much life as possible maybe some future (100, 1000 years from) generation will have different priorities.

Having a bank of preserved DNA might prove useful.

[Nihil]

3. Yeah ...

> Well at least they get cheap tuna....
> while it lasts.

... and the bastards can sit there in their polar bear fur jackets
while they eat it ...

:grr:

> Having a bank of preserved DNA might prove useful.

What for? A packed lunch for when the price gets too high?

[Nihil]

4. Scum

> Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told reporters after the vote.
> "It means the import of bluefin tuna will continue … the price of
> bluefin tuna will not rise further."

And that is the Japanese contribution to marine ecology in a nutshell ...
fuck the world, we just want to eat anything we want (preferably cheaply).

:mad:

[Dead_Parrot]

5. Fuckers

:argh:

[hunter]

6. I've heard eating tuna and whale meat makes men impotent.

Eventually their balls shrink, their ears grow big, and they begin to squeak like Mickey Mouse.

You don't even want to know what happens to women who eat tuna and whale meat, but trust me, a man wouldn't want to be mistaken for a mouse.

Trust me on this. My very wise ancestors fled lands where tuna and whale meat were a regular part of the diet.

:scared:

[pscot]

7. What the fuck is the point of having a navy

if we aren't going to use it the way god intended? We should just sink any goddamned tuna boat that enters the Atlantic or crosses the international date line in the Pacific. We're always ready to throw our weight around. Why not use it do something positive? This would cause an internationalo crisis worth watching.