Key findings: Looting The Seas

In March 2010, a team of reporters from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists set out to document the plundering of one

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"… ulatory reports, and corporate records in ten countries, including France, Spain, Japan, and Tunisia. In addition, ICIJ gained access to an internal databa …"

"… wall of secrecy protects the bluefin industry. Officials in countries from Spain to Croatia failed to produce records on fishing and farming infringements. …"

Overview: The black market in bluefin

Along the Mediterranean coast of France, in the city of Montpellier, prosecutors are quietly putting on trial an ancient French tradition —

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"… ulatory reports, and corporate records in ten countries, including France, Spain, Japan, and Tunisia. In addition, ICIJ gained access through an ICCAT memb …"

"… isco Martinez, who in 1994 opened the region’s first ranch in Cartagena, Spain, said the Japanese financed the fishing campaigns in advance, and provided …"

"… uthorities is Drvenik Tuna, a Croatian facility co-owned by the Cartagena, Spain-based Ricardo Fuentes & Sons, an industry pioneer which operates farms …"

"… en “military matters.”Response at the national level was no better. In Spain, the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs refused to r …"

Will new debit card fee controls revolutionize card industry?

Debit and credit card fees that retailers must pay to Visa, MasterCard, and American Express may soon fall thanks to three converging events

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"… e low-fee cards. Use that savings, they say, to pay for your own flight to Spain. …"

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Threatened bluefin tuna may not get much help from international conference

By Kate Willson

Rejecting the tough stance of its top fisheries official, the European Union agreed Thursday to recommend similar catch limits as last year

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"… on of the EU’s 27 countries – led by its three biggest fishing nations Spain, France and Italy – is still ambiguous. The EU statement says it will re …"

"… the quota in spite of pressure from ministers in the EU fishing nations of Spain, France and Italy. “Bluefin tuna will survive. We’re here for it, …"

Part I: A Mediterranean feeding frenzy

By Kate Willson and Jean-Pierre Canet

Cobblestone walkways line the quiet canals of Sète, a French community of 40,000 nestled along the Mediterranean about 85 miles west of Mars

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"… shing with nets that close from below like a draw-string purse. Along with Spain and Italy, the three countries cornered the lion’s share of quotas. Gree …"

"… oreans vessels discovered the rich bluefin fishery in the Balearic Sea off Spain’s eastern coast, where he now ranches tuna for Japanese buyers. “There …"

"… op. And France helped us build expensive new boats.” In neighboring Spain and Italy, fishermen also encountered a similar lack of oversight.  …"

About this project: Looting the Seas

Looting the Seas is a two-year project by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists looking at the forces that are rapidly d

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"… r: Kate WillsonData Editor: David DonaldReporting Team: Marcos Garcia Rey (Spain), Jean-Pierre Canet (France), Scilla Alecci (Washington, D.C.), Brigitte A …"

"… orporate records in ten countries: Belgium, Croatia, France, Italy, Malta, Spain, Japan, Tunisia, Turkey, and the United States. An extensive literature se …"

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Part III: Bluefin, Inc.

By Marina Walker Guevara and Martin Foster

Mount Fuji rises across the bay from the 16th century port of Shimizu — a sight fit for a post card. The town has seen better days — its bus

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"… erranean in the mid-1990s. The Japanese teamed up with local partners from Spain to Croatia, financing fishing campaigns in advance, providing technical su …"

Part II: Diving into the tuna ranching industry

By Marcos Garcia Rey

In the final days of 1996, the air was cold and seas rough around the southern Spanish port of Cartagena. A boat belonging to the Tuna Graso

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"… sea “ranch” — a joint venture between Japan’s Mitsui & Co. and Spain’s Ricardo Fuentes & Sons — had just pulled aboard a huge 300-kilo …"

"… rtínez, who pioneered ranching in the Mediterranean by opening a ranch in Spain in 1994. “Then, I went to Japan to study the market and realized that it …"

"… ching business boomed. Spanish ranchers dominated the business, first from Spain, and then through joint ventures with both local and Japanese partners in …"

"… veterans say. Starting in 2002, the once rich Balearic fishing ground off Spain “was about to collapse due to over-catching,” recalls Manel Balfegó, …"

Investigation, audit reveal past mismanagement by Gore's campaign manager

By Bill Hogan

WASHINGTON, October 2, 1999 — On May 11, praising "his leadership skills and strategic vision," Vice President Al Gore named Tony Coelho gen

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"… volving more than $2 million in cost overruns at the 1992 fair in Seville, Spain, Congress barred the agency from obligating or spending federal funds on w …"

Part II: A troubled model for reform in Mexico

By Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

A troubled model for reform in Mexico

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"… the plan after several trips and long discussions with his counterparts in Spain and Brazil. And at Philip Morris, a former executive says it was Francisco …"

"… ress.Vargas no longer works for BAT. She responded to ICIJ via e-mail from Spain, where she now lives.She confirmed that tobacco companies had invited legi …"

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