PARIS — Japan will not join in any agreement to ban international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna under the United Nations treaty on endangered species, the country’s top fisheries negotiator said.
The negotiator, Masanori Miyahara, said in a telephone interview this week that Japan “would have no choice but to take a reservation” — in effect, to ignore the ban and leave its market open to continued imports — if the bluefin tuna were granted most-endangered species status. “It’s a pity,” he said, “but it’s a matter of principle.” Mr. Miyahara, Japan’s top delegate to the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, referred to as Cites, said the convention was the wrong forum for managing the fishing of the bluefin tuna. A formal proposal for a ban — which requires the approval of two-thirds of its 175 member countries — is scheduled to be presented at a Cites meeting next month in Doha, Qatar.
Apparently Japan has principles...
Nothing to do with the $10-100k per fish then??
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Feb-22-2010 23:16
jonSun
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Chicago CTA #77
I think they need another a-bomb.
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Feb-22-2010 23:18
D-res
Hangin from Sagan's uvula
Registered: May 2004
Location: Milwaukee, WI
For a pretty advanced society Japan is a fucking strange place. Anime, guys who are afraid of sex, and indiscriminate fishing of endangered fish as well as our dolphinese brothers and sisters.
Feb-22-2010 23:22
Nostalgic
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Registered: Apr 2005
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by D-res
For a pretty advanced society Japan is a fucking strange place. Anime, guys who are afraid of sex, and indiscriminate fishing of endangered fish as well as our dolphinese brothers and sisters.
If it ain't white it ain't normal.
Typical peckerwoods.
Feb-23-2010 00:05
saluyamo
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Newcastle, Australia
Japan - Fuck you, world!
Feb-23-2010 00:11
butterfly
melissa
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: West CoCo, CA
japan's stupidity is causing me problems. i want to go snowboarding there but my husband refuses until they stop those fisherman who hunt whales. if he hears about this, it will just add more fuel to the fire...
Feb-23-2010 00:28
D-res
Hangin from Sagan's uvula
Registered: May 2004
Location: Milwaukee, WI
quote:
Originally posted by Nostalgic
If it ain't white it ain't normal.
Typical peckerwoods.
Feb-23-2010 00:37
igottaknow
PerfectTeeth R4 Dinosaurs
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: The Future
quote:
Originally posted by butterfly
japan's stupidity is causing me problems. i want to go snowboarding there but my husband refuses until they stop those fisherman who hunt whales. if he hears about this, it will just add more fuel to the fire...
i agree with him. you live next to the rockies.
Feb-23-2010 00:45
djnitride
Tiesto played my record
Registered: Nov 2009
Location: Texas
quote:
Originally posted by jonSun
I think they need another a-bomb.
Feb-23-2010 01:28
Joss Weatherby
Banned
Registered: May 2008
Location: The Pacific Northwest, of course
Japan takes don't tread on me to a whole other level.
Feb-23-2010 01:31
Adam420
Trance Free Since 2003
Registered: Jul 2008
Location: Montreal, QC
I love a lot of things Japanese but their insatiable appetite for seafood is a real shame. I mean look, I understand that in Japan, tuna is the equivalent of beef in the U.S., for example. But they really need to how restraint, find some culinary alternative for a little while. They don't HAVE to eat their maguro/toro, plenty of other fish to eat. At worst, jack up the price so much that only the very rich could afford it.
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.
Feb-23-2010 01:38
djnitride
Tiesto played my record
Registered: Nov 2009
Location: Texas
quote:
Originally posted by Adam420
I love a lot of things Japanese but their insatiable appetite for seafood is a real shame. I mean look, I understand that in Japan, tuna is the equivalent of beef in the U.S., for example. But they really need to how restraint, find some culinary alternative for a little while. They don't HAVE to eat their maguro/toro, plenty of other fish to eat. At worst, jack up the price so much that only the very rich could afford it.
Lets just embargo them and let them kill everything they eat. Then they will be real fucked.
WTF Japan!?
