Environmental Activists from Greenpeace Demonstrating Against "Blue Fin Tuna" Fishing, National Day of Protest, Paris, France, Signing Petitions

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Group of Environmental Activists from Greenpeace France, Demonstrating to End Over Fishing of the Blue Fin TUna in the Mediterranean Sea. They Asked Passerby s to Sign a Petition to protect 40% of the World's Oceans from Fishing, as part of an ongoing campaign to save the endangered Red Tuna Species from extinction. At the same moment in the Mediterranean Sea, another group of Activists from Greenpeace were attacked while protesting in local waters on the Mediterranean. "Since the industrial fishing era began, stocks of bluefin tuna have fallen by at least 85 percent in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, where they come to spawn in the warmer waters. Many of the 100 boats that fish in the Mediterranean carry net cages to contain tuna, which are then towed offshore to be fattened and shipped in giant freezer ships to Japan, where they are a mainstay of sushi and sashimi. Earlier this year the European Union and the United States attempted to ban the trade of the species, but Japan -- where bluefin tuna is a delicacy -- lobbied successfully and the proposal was defeated."

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Location: Paris, France, Pont Saint Lo-uis, 75004
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