Warning over Pacific bluefin tuna stocks as Japan meeting ends in stalemate

Meeting ends with no move to save endangered fish as campaigners warn bluefin tuna stocks will continue to plunge unless urgent action is taken

Campaigners have warned that global stocks of bluefin tuna will continue their dramatic decline after Japan- by far the fish's biggest consumer - and other countries failed to agree on new conservation measures.

A four-day meeting in Sapporo, northern Japan, of countries that monitor stocks in most of the Pacific Ocean, made no progress towards helping fish populations recover from decades of overfishing, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts.