Tuna-fishing nations agree to replenish depleted Pacific bluefin stocks
TOKYO — The world’s Pacific bluefin tuna won something of a reprieve Friday, when tuna-fishing countries reached an agreement to gradually rebuild severely depleted stocks while still allowing nations like Japan to catch and consume the delicacy. Japan — by far the world’s biggest consumer of bluefin, eating about 80 percent of the global haul in the $42 billion tuna industry — had been resisting new rules, while conservationists were warning about the commercial extinction of bluefin in the Pacific Ocean. Proponents of limits hailed the deal as a compromise that everyone could live with.