As you know, bluefin tuna is currently being discussed at Doha. In a committee meeting last week there was no support to list it as an endangered species. Our position has been clear from the beginning.
CITES is an organization that deals with trade restrictions and does not deal with fisheries management. Our position is that we believe tuna should be managed under a regional fisheries management organization known as ICCAT, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.
Canada exports about 95% to 99% of the tuna it catches. If this had been listed as an endangered species our fishery basically would be wiped out, while other countries that consume tuna domestically would continue to fish. So listing tuna as an endangered species actually would not have brought the result that we need to get with tuna. We need to manage the fishery, not the trade.