The recent meeting of the body charged with regulating tuna catches in the Pacific concluded last month – and for bigeye tuna and all who love them, the news is not good. That Hawai`i’s own Western Pacific Fishery Management Council should have made it even more difficult for a meaningful agreement to be reached is downright appalling.
Sadly, the dissembling and delay of the tuna commission only reflect what is occurring globally. The ability of regulatory and legislative bodies to grapple with environmental issues seems to shrink even as the need to do so grows ever more urgent, as marine biologist Callum Roberts argues in the book we review in this issue.
There is good news, however. Governor Abercrombie has finally signed rules to restrict fishing in areas of West Hawai`i.
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