Conservation in name only: fishing

view on Economist Espresso--Nov 24th 2018

Conservation in name only: fishing

• in name only 有名无实；名义上；徒有虚名

1. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas ended its annual meeting this week to a wall of criticism.

2. The forum, including more than 50 countries plus the European Union, is meant to manage commercial tuna fishing.

• tuna 金枪鱼

3. But this week it merely rolled over some current rules, could not reach a consensus on limiting catches of bigeye tuna and failed to stand up to illegal trade in other species.

• consensus 一致的意见；共识
• reach a consensus on sth. 对…… 达成共识
• bigeye tuna 大眼金枪鱼；大目鲔；短鲔
• stand up 站起来；持久；露头角；〔美俚〕背约

4. The EU had proposed giving countries flexibility around fishing but also strengthening controls, allowing some species to recover.

• flexibility 灵活性；弹性；挠性；(光的)折射性

5. But this was weakened by Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Turkey.

6. Scientists and conservationists have long argued that ICCAT is driven more by short-term interests than sustainability, and the WWF, an NGO, called this week’s meeting a “complete failure”.

• conservationist * 生态环保人士；天然资源保护论者；自然资源保护人士

7. Atlantic fishing must be reduced to give tuna stocks time to replenish.

• replenish 再装满；补货；补充生命

8. But there is little optimism as long as the ICCAT sidelines the conservation in its name.

• sideline 局外人；副业

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人们看法不一，国家做法不一，不知道tuna什么时候也会灭绝吧。

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