Briefing: Joint Tuna RFMO Meeting, Kobe 2007

Greenpeace Briefing: Joint Tuna RFMO Meeting: Kobe, Japan - January 22-26th 2007 Opening the can: How Tuna Fishery Management Organisations Regularly Fail to Manage our Oceans As member states of the Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (RFMOs) tasked with regulating the world’s tuna stocks gather in Kobe, Japan this week, it is high time for them to recognise that if they continue to operate as they have done to date, they will destroy the very resource that they have been set to manage and protect. Tuna RFMO member states must acknowledge that a radical change to fisheries management is urgently required if they are to prevent the collapse of tuna stocks across the globe.

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