Japan warned tuna stocks face extinction - Guardian

[Eugene]

11am
Japan warned tuna stocks face extinction

Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Monday January 22, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Japan's huge appetite for tuna will take the most sought-after stocks
to the brink of commercial extinction unless fisheries agree on more
rigid quotas, wildlife campaigners warned today.

WWF said that while Japan was the main culprit, burgeoning demand for
tuna from other countries, such as China, had increased the threat
to stocks.

"Tuna are fast disappearing, with important stocks at high risk of
commercial extinction due to weak management," the group, formerly
known as the World Wildlife Fund, said in a statement.

"Atlantic bluefin (tuna), used for high-end sushi and sashimi, is massively
overfished and the spawning stock of Southern bluefin in the Indian Ocean
is down about 90%."

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,,1996025,00.html

[sweetheart]

1. The japanese are japan?

I wonder if it is not another corporate stupidity, not even a political
act, but as much as miners and resource businesses insist on growing to
an inorganic business model set to exploit to exhaustion.

The story as written, leaves the question of are the japanese stupid to
destroy their own foodstocks? .. but that would be jumping to the conclusion
that the japanese have anything to do with this corporate malfeseance.

How tragic that markets consume to the exhaustion of all externalities.