The European Commission will close the bluefin tuna fishery in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean for rest of the year because the annual quota has been exhausted.

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Fisheries controlled by (Greek) Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Portugal and Spain will affected. Italy and France closed their own fisheries in July and August respectively.


EU fishing Commissioner Joe Borg said: “Clearly there are problems of over fishing a stock already threatened with collapse…the Commission will do all it can to address these issues urgently.”


The fishery’s quota stands at 16,779.5 tonnes.

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