Have international treaties like ICAT been successful or unsuccessful in conserving the blue fin tuna stocks?
I am not sure they have been unsuccessful. I am not sure what the situation would have been like if there had been no conventions. This mechanism, with a highly migratory species, is the only one that can get the scientists to collaborate together, to put the databases together necessary to conduct the assessments. It’s the only mechanism that can get the politicians to agree on what should be the shares for the different countries. Without conventions like this, without bodies like this, the situation would doubtlessly be much worse, if you think that the current state is disastrous. Have the quotas been observed? If the quotas have been set, why are the stocks declining? Generally this is the case for most fisheries in the world, when they are set; it’s usually because the stocks are already quite depleted. Very few fisheries are managed with quotas from the start. So I’m not sure that one is a prerequisite of the other. To what degree has over-fishing in the Mediterranean been a fac
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