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Delegates Reject Marine Species
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The menu of proposals intended as the first step in gaining CITES oversight of commercially important marine fish species failed to whet delegate appetites as each was voted down. The first to be rejected was Australia’s bid to have an "Introduction from the Sea" proposal adopted. This would have given CITES authority to regulate species taken from beyond the national water boundaries. Proposals to list three shark – the Great White, Basking, and Whale sharks – also met defeat by delegates at Committee I. The rejection of these amendments bodes well for commercial seafood
enterprises – from fisheries, to processors, to retail fish merchants and
restaurants. CITES’ regulatory bureaucracy has no experience in handling
the complexities of commercial species and would have been disastrous had
delegates not recognized the dangers at COP 11. |
