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WTF Japan!?
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| Jackson |
| quote: | Japan Plans to Ignore Any Ban on Bluefin Tuna
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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| jonSun |
| I think they need another a-bomb. |
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| D-res |
| For a pretty advanced society Japan is a ing strange place. Anime, guys who are afraid of sex, and indiscriminate fishing of endangered fish as well as our dolphinese brothers and sisters. |
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| Nostalgic |
| quote: | Originally posted by D-res
For a pretty advanced society Japan is a ing 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. |
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| saluyamo |
| Japan - you, world! |
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| 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... |
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| D-res |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nostalgic
If it ain't white it ain't normal.
Typical peckerwoods. |
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| igottaknow |
| 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. |
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| djnitride |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonSun
I think they need another a-bomb. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| Japan takes don't tread on me to a whole other level. :p |
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| 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. |
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| djnitride |
| 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 ed. |
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