Time magazine has some quality reporting on the latest effort to protect bluefin tuna from extinction. With bluefin numbers down 85 percent from their historic high, decisive international legal action is urgently needed.
The Obama administration has just thrown its weight behind an international ban on the trade of bluefin tuna, and the initiative is gaining strong support from other countries. The villain in this story is Senator Olympia Snowe; let’s hope her opposition to this effort inspires Maine voters to throw her out of office.
It appears from the article that, from a political perspective, this was an extraordinarily difficult measure for the Obama administration to take. It’s unimaginable that the last guy occupying the Oval Office would have supported this ban. (Via Hawthorne.) Link.
