The increase in demand for bluefin tuna has resulted in a call from Monaco and CITES to place Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna on the world’s endangered species list.Monaco and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) claim that the increased demand for bluefin tuna has caused the species’ population to decline in the Atlantic and Mediterranean during the past 10 years.Monaco said the bluefin population in the west Atlantic has decreased by 83 percent from 1970 to 2007.Meanwhile, stocks of the species in the Mediterranean have declined by more than 74 percent from 1957 to 2007."At this stage we believe that the time for CITES to intervene is long overdue," Monaco said in a proposal.The move by the country and the UN agency could cause bluefin tuna trade to become illegal.Monaco cited the heightened demand for bluefin tuna by the sushi market in the US and Japan.

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