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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.
