Source: Dutch Press
Earlier this week also Dutch fisheries minister, Gerda Verburg, announced the Netherlands’ backing for a proposal by Monaco to list Atlantic bluefin tuna on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) after a statement Friday from UK fisheries minister Huw Irranca-Davies that Britain is also supporting the global trade ban.
The UK and the Netherlands have put their weight behind a call to ban international trade in endangered Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna, following last week’s vocal support for the campaign from President Nicolas Sarkozy of France.