On May 1st, 2010, Sea Shepherd’s flag ship Steve Irwin will depart from New York City and head towards the Mediterranean where it will commence Sea Shepherd’s 2010 Tuna Defense Campaign: Operation Blue Rage. The campaign aims to stop a variety of criminal activities leading to the extinction of bluefin tuna.
Bluefin tuna currently face illegal poaching and extreme overfishing, and populations have fallen by at least 85% since the industrial fishing era began. Bluefin quotas are set at a ludicrously high 13,500 tons by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), but in actual fact over 60,000 tons are killed every year. In addition, shockingly, CITES recently failed to include the bluefin tuna as a protected species. The decision occurred after Japan, Canada, and a variety of economically challenged nations opposed the measure.
In response, as the bluefin tuna’s last defense, Sea Shepherd will actively enforce conservation laws by opposing the poaching currently threatening the species.
http://www.seashepherd.org/blue-rage/In other SSCS news:
*If you're in/around New York City, you still have another day to meet the crew and tour The Steve Irwin. Go to Chelsea Pier #59. (I can't recommend this highly enough. I vividly recall touring the Farley Mowat and I have a much better appreciation of how the crew lives like that on board for so long.) Details and tour hours, here:
http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100419-2.html*Next December, SSCS will be back in the Southern Ocean defending the whales as part of Operation No Compromise
*The next series of "Whale Wars" will begin airing on June 4th.
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