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MADRID -- The central government has urged the European Commission (EC) to
initiate an infringement procedure after Gibraltar allocated itself a
quota of 10 tonnes of bluefin tuna to capture in 2015.
The Spanish authorities have stressed that this decision is totally illegal in accordance with Community and international law. Fishing opportunities for bluefin tuna are set based on the decisions of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), which is responsible for the management and conservation of tuna stocks in the East Atlantic and Mediterranean.
In this regard, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment
(MAGRAMA) explains that ICCAT allocates fishing opportunities to each
of the contracting parties, and does not include any specific quota for
Gibraltar under the Recovery Plan for this stock.
However, the tuna conservation standard published in the Official Journal
of Gibraltar on 30 October allows fishing for bluefin and bigeye tuna,
both subject to total allowable catch (TAC) of ICCAT for any
Gibraltarian resident who meets certain minimum requirements that are
not related to the regulation of the entity.
(Source: http://www.fis.com)
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