Tuna targets

Efforts to save the South Pacific’s big bluefin tuna are in danger after a
meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
adjourned last week without setting catch quotas. Japan wants catches to rise by
25 per cent, saying stocks will still recover. But Australian scientists, using
the same type of analysis, say there is greater than even chance that these
catches would drive the tuna into extinction by 2020.