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Nature 432, 539 (2 December 2004) | doi:10.1038/432539a; Published online 1 December 2004

Plans to track tuna canned amid claims of cash shortfall

Rex Dalton

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Conservationists fear overfishing will kill off bluefin tuna.

A research programme to investigate populations of Atlantic bluefin tuna has been shelved by the international commission charged with conserving the fish.The first phase of the project failed to win approval at the meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in New Orleans, which ended on 21 November.