Tuna II
Tuna II: a dispute in the GATT launched in 1992 by the European Economic Community (EEC) and separately the Netherlands on behalf of the Netherlands Antilles against the United States. It concerned restrictions maintained by the United States on the import of certain tuna products. In this abstract, the references to the EEC should always be understood as including also the Netherlands acting on behalf of the Netherlands Antilles. Tuna fish were commonly caught in commercial fisheries using large "purse seine" nets aimed at catching whole schools. In the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean tuna schools are often accompanied by herds of dolphin. The use of this fishing method leads to the unintentional killing of dolphin. An agreement reached between the members of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) aimed to lower dolphin mortality to less than
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Author of the text: W. Goode
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