The wild west of tuna fishing lobbies: an investigation by BLOOM

14 November 2022

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Summary — Understand it all in just two pages
• A case that perfectly illustrates the collusion between the public and private sectors
  • The tip of the iceberg
  • A war prize for the tuna lobbies
  • A Maritime Affairs Officer
  • …at the “disposal” of the industrial lobbies ransacking African waters
  • The anomalies of the “compatibility opinion”
• The concrete effects on the law: a pervert reporting mechanism
  • Masks are off
  • A defector at a turning point for tuna fishing
• Years of fraud with the blessing of the French government
  • … and the Spanish government
• A threat to marine life
• The reform of the Control Regulation
• The all-powerful industrial fishing and tuna fishing lobbies
  • EUROPÊCHE
  • ORTHONGEL
• European tuna fisheries in Africa
  • France and Spain, the heavyweights of tuna fishing
  • What is the health of tuna populations at the global level?
• Conclusion & demands