CITES

• Holly Doremus
• March 18, 2010

A blue day for bluefin

Negotiators at the meeting in Qatar of the parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species have rejected proposals to ban international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna (and in polar bears). (See coverage in the New York Times and Washington Post.) The vote on the bluefin ban was surprisingly lopsided — only 20 …

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