The non-profit Pew Charitable Trusts believe that officials overseeing fishing limits for Pacific bluefin tuna have made the current scarcity worse with a rules change

The group, which has called for a two-year moratorium on bluefin fishing, wrote an article criticizing members of the Northern Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) for failing to come to an agreement on new bluefin protection measures [...]