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Environmentalists insisted the increase was excessive...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eCountries fishing the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean agreed Tuesday to expand the annual quota for prized Bluefin tuna to reflect an improvement in their stocks. \u003cbr/\u003e              Environmentalists insisted the increase was excessive and premature.\u003cbr/\u003e              The 50-nation International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) agreed to hike the quota from 24,000 tons this year to 28,000 next year, with a further 4,000 tons added in each of the following two years.\u003cbr/\u003e              The decision means the quota has more than doubled from five years ago, when once depleted stocks of bluefin tuna, a delicacy in sushi and sashimi dishes the world over, first started showing the potential of a recovery.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We have been able to decide a gradual increase of captures, by staying careful. And we are staying within the scientific advice,\" Stefaan Depypere, the head of the European Union delegation said in an interview.\u003cbr/\u003e              Environmentalists insisted the advice was more ambivalent and were bitterly disappointed since they maintain that the recovery of the Bluefin is still too fragile to permit such major increases in fishing quotas.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Quite frankly PEW is quite disappointed about the outcomes of this ICCAT meeting,\" said Paulus Tak of the Pew Charitable Trusts.\u003cbr/\u003e              Considering how many species have been overfished to near commercial extinction in the past few decades, from cod off eastern Canada to Mediterranean Bluefin, the challenge of increasing catch quotas and still safeguarding stocks is daunting and fraught with risk.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I do think that in the end, CPCs (companies) are here to defend primarily their industry interests,\" said Tak.\u003cbr/\u003e              Environmentalists had called for a slight increase in catch quotas at best.\u003cbr/\u003e              Some environmental groups are troubled by the ICCAT's scientific findings and think they might be overly optimistic.\u003cbr/\u003e              But influential partners like the 28-nation European Union and Japan believe the scientific advice has underpinned a rise in the annual catch quota to 36,000 tons by 2020. \u003cbr/\u003e              The EU said it is moving from bluefin recovery to management of the stocks and will close off some loopholes in the system to improve efficiency.\u003cbr/\u003e              Bluefin tuna's annual market value stands around 200 million US dollars at the dock and four times more at the final point of sale.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Marrakech – 21 November 2017 \u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of of ICCAT (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) meeting \u003cbr/\u003e              2. Various of delegations attending meeting \u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English), Martin Tsamenyi, ICCAT Chairman:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I declare the 25th meeting of the commission closed. And we will see you all in Croatia next year. Thank-you\" \u003cbr/\u003e              4. Various of meeting\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Various of ICCAT First Vice-Chair Stefaan Depypere\u003cbr/\u003e              6. European Union delegation \u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE (French), Stefaan Depypere, Vice Chairman, Head of EU delegation: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Here, this week, we have been able to decide a gradual increase of captures, by staying careful. And we are staying into the scientific advise frame which is giving us the limits of this increase\" \u003cbr/\u003e              8. Wide of stage \u003cbr/\u003e              9. Japanese delegation \u003cbr/\u003e              10. Japanese commissioner to ICCAT Shingo Ota\u003cbr/\u003e              11. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Shingo Ota, Japanese commissioner to ICCAT:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Because this decision is in accordance with scientific advice so we are pleased to see the increase of our quotas for Bluefin tuna\" \u003cbr/\u003e              12. ICCAT sign \u003cbr/\u003e              13. Wide of meeting \u003cbr/\u003e              14. Moroccan delegation applauding\u003cbr/\u003e              15. SOUNDBITE (French), Zakia Driouich, General secretary of Fishing department, government of Morocco : \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Despite the small efforts we agreed to take in order to help countries who are facing difficulties, we have seen our quota increased for 2018 compared to 2017. An increase of 428 tonnes.\"   \u003cbr/\u003e              16. Wide of meeting\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Various of Shana Miller from the Ocean Foundation and Paulus Tak, from PEW, Pew Research Centre - American think-tank\u003cbr/\u003e              18. SOUNDBITE (English) Shana Miller, Ocean Foundation:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We're very disappointed. This is one of the most disappointing ICCAT meetings in years. The commission opted to increase quotas on Atlantic bluefin tuna fisheries that are expected to lead to declines in these critically important stocks and highly valuable stocks. And also for short fin mako shark which is a very vulnerable stock in the North Atlantic. The scientific advice was clear that there should be no landings of that species.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              19. Pan of meeting\u003cbr/\u003e              20. US delegation \u003cbr/\u003e              21. SOUNDBITE (English), Paulus Tak, Pew Research Centre:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Quite frankly PEW is quite disappointed about the outcomes of this week's ICCAT meeting so what we see is that we had a lot of science but in the end, it's really a question of political will and the majority of the parties here had the will to continue fishing. To fish more, to fish faster. And what we see for several species is that it will lead to population declines.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              22. Wide of meeting  \u003cbr/\u003e              23. SOUNDBITE (English), Paulus Tak, PEW:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I do think that in the end, CPCs (companies) are here to defend primarily their industry interests. This week we saw very strong scientific advice, scientific concerns expressed together with NGOs and this has been hardly adhered too.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              24. Various of meeting\u003cbr/\u003e              25. 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