Japan aims to take the lead in working out an international plan to help bluefin tuna stocks in the Pacific Ocean recover and implement it in 2015, a senior Fisheries Agency official said Thursday.
Masanori Miyahara, deputy director-general of the agency, announced the policy at a meeting of some 340 representatives of the fisheries industry, calling on them to help regulate bluefin tuna stocks in the Pacific.
The plan is aimed at increasing spawning bluefin tuna stocks, which fell to a record low in 2010. It is expected to set a target year and call for regulating annual catch quotas.
