日本、クロマグロの漁獲枠拡大提案　２割増、７月の国際会議

　水産庁は２５日、太平洋クロマグロ（本マグロ）の資源管理策を話し合う中西部太平洋まぐろ類委員会（ＷＣＰＦＣ）の北小委員会などに対し、小型魚（３０キロ未満）と大型魚（３０キロ以上）の漁獲枠をいずれも２０％増やすよう提案したと発表した。
　７月２７～２９日に開かれるオンライン形式の会議で実現を目指す。日本が提案する漁獲枠の拡大は、昨年まで米国の反対で見送られており、今年も難しい交渉が予想される。（2021/06/25-18:52）

Japan has proposed increasing Pacific bluefin tuna catch quotas to international fisheries resources management bodies, the Fisheries Agency said Friday.
   The proposal calls for expanding catch quotas by 20 pct each for bluefin tuna weighing less than 30 kilograms and for those larger.
   The agency aims to win approval for the quota expansion at a joint online working group meeting of the Northern Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission to be held July 27-29.
   Japan's requests for higher catch quotas have been rejected due to opposition from the United States, which claims that bluefin tuna stocks remain low.
   The agency plans to strongly call for expanding the quotas this time as it believes that stocks of adult bluefin tuna capable of reproducing have been recovering.