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Taiwan-Japan Pact: Bad News for Bluefin

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Apr 30, 2013
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Conservationists and fishery experts are deeply worried that an early April pact in which Japan granted Taiwan generous fishing rights in the waters surrounding the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands could spell the extinction of the phenomenally valuable bluefin tuna in the region.

The islands are administered by Japan but are subject to competing claims by Japan, …

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