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U.N. Rejects Export Ban on Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

By DAVID JOLLY and JOHN M. BRODER

Published: March 18, 2010

Summary: Delegates at a United Nations conference on endangered species in Doha, Qatar, soundly defeated American-supported proposals on Thursday to ban international trade in bluefin tuna and to protect polar bears. Bluefin tuna unloaded in Japan in September. A trade ban on the species has been rejected.

Atlantic and Mediterranean stocks of bluefin, a fish prized especially by Japanese sushi lovers for its fatty belly flesh, have been severely depleted by years of heavy commercial fishing

Response: This is not a very good thing because what if this fish goes extinct.