1.   Committee members also asked why the service obtains its scientific information on Atlantic tuna stock through ICATT, the international commission for tuna conservation.

2.   Japan has already exceeded its catch of Southern Bluefin Tuna under the convention, saying the additional catch was experimental and would help assess tuna stocks.

3.   Spanish fishermen, using traditional poles and baited lines, claim that drift nets used by French and British boats are destroying tuna stocks and ruining their livelihood.

4.   The South Pacific tuna stock is far more hardy than that in the rest of the world.