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Bluefin tuna...Latest from Doha (from Google news):<br /><br />Bluefin tuna: Japan 'lobbying' blasted at CITES talks<br /><br />DOHA — Japan was accused of scare tactics at world talks on wildlife protection on Monday as it campaigned against a proposal to curb trade in bluefin tuna, the succulent sushi delicacy.<br /><br />The 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meeting until March 25, is gearing up to vote on banning commerce in bluefin from the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, a motion that requires a two-thirds majority to pass.<br /><br />So far, fewer than 40 of the approximately 150 countries in Doha have declared their intention to back the move.<br /><br />"It is very much up in the air. There's a lot of jockeying," said Patrick Van Klaveren of Monaco, which is leading the charge for a ban.<br /><br />"Japan's lobbying is formidable. Three or four people from the Japanese delegation are constantly criss-crossing the Convention, arranging meetings," he told AFP.<br /><br />On Sunday, Japanese delegates met with some African nations, said a negotiator from west Africa.<br /><br />"We are used to it. They do the same thing before each meeting of the International Whaling Commission," the body that oversees global whale populations, he said.<br /><br />Van Klaveren said that Tokyo was also targeting developing countries, "scaring them about what could happen to their (own tuna) stocks, along the lines of 'your turn will come'."<br /><br />Monaco's proposal entails placing Atlantic- and Mediterranean-caught bluefin under Appendix I of the CITES rulebook, meaning fish caught in those sea areas could not be sold internationally.<br /><br />Even though it would not affect bluefin caught in the Pacific, "the Pacific island nations and Asia are also quite sensitive" to Japan's arguments, said van Klaveren.<br /><br />Tokyo has vowed to fight the moratorium, saying it would ignore any such measure voted into place.<br /><br />In Seoul on Thursday, the Japanese vice farm minister, Masahiko Yamada, pressed his South Korean counterpart to support Japan's position.<br /><br />"The Tokyo side made sure that Seoul will continue cooperating with Japan on this issue," Yamada said in a statement.<br /><br />Tunisia, with major bluefin fisheries in the Mediterranean, is also working the halls in Doha, hoping to muster support from the 22 Arab League nations against the proposal, NGOs said.<br /><br />A delegate from Tunis denied this. "We have expressed our position, but have done nothing to encourage other countries to share it," Khaled Zahlah told AFP.<br /><br />Van Klaveren voiced regret that the EU had not taken a stronger stand.<br /><br />But it has asked for implementation to be postponed until a November meeting of ICAAT, the inter-governmental fishery group that manages tuna stocks in the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas.<br /><br />"The EU is not very active. It is absorbed by its own internal negotiations," Van Klaveren complained.<br /><br />The rotating EU presidency is currently held by Spain which, along with France and Italy, accounts for 50 percent of Mediterranean bluefin catches.<br /><br />Norway, Switzerland, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Serbia also support the bluefin moratorium, he added.Tavishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18355219027678403722noreply@blogger.com