If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

European Union: NO to Tuna Ban

25-09-2009 9:43am

#1

Tabnabs

Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,790 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2006

Posts: 14686

The "Club Med" of southern European Union countries came under attack from environmentalists today for defying the campaign to ban trade in bluefin tuna, Japan's highly prized sushi fish, whose stocks are dwindling dangerously low.

A fortnight ago the European commission agreed, after weeks of argument, to back a proposal from Monaco to ban trade in bluefin tuna. If the EU had voted for the ban at an international forum next March, fishing for bluefin tuna would have been effectively outlawed, at least temporarily.

Despite optimism that the ban, supported by 21 EU governments, would go ahead, the move was blocked at a Brussels meeting late yesterday by Malta, Cyprus, Spain, Italy, France, and Greece.

source

0

Comments

#2 25-09-2009 10:52am

djpbarry

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: June 2006

Posts: 12697

OP,

Your own thoughts on the matter please?

0
#3 25-09-2009 1:07pm

robtri

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2008

Posts: 5372

mmmmmm tuna.......must be lunch time....

0