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Council warns tuna catchers to stick to international rules

Taiwanese deep-sea-fishing operators must abide by the latest international ruling on bigeye-tuna fishing in the Atlantic Ocean and the government will offer reasonable aid to affected ship-owners, the Council of Agricul-ture said yesterday.

The Fisheries Administration was responding to media reports that Taiwanese fishermen based in Cape Town, South Africa, said they plan to return to Taiwan to seek government compensation because their operations will be profitless under the new punitive international ruling.

Fisheries Administration Di-rector Hsieh Ta-wen (謝大文) said that Taiwan must abide by the ruling if it wants to have its 2007 quota return to a normal level.
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