The organization responsible for managing the catch of more than half the world’s tuna holds a key section of its annual compliance meeting in secret. For three days, a committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) assesses how well member states are following fishing rules, without any outside observers present. The WCPFC says […]
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Tragedy of the Commodified
Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna Austin Price
January 11, 2021
In 2010, social scientist Jennifer Telesca arrived in Paris to attend meetings at the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, or ICCAT. Journalists were typically barred from most ICCAT meetings, but as an academic researcher, Telesca had been granted observer status to study the systems that govern the management and conservation of the warm-blooded ocean giant
Thunnus thynnus, the Atlantic bluefin tuna.
“I had realized that if we were to take the Anthropocene seriously, then we also had to start looking at what international law and economics are doing to bring about this condition,” she says.