PARIS (Reuters) - France will support a ban on global trade in bluefin tuna, a government official said on Wednesday, bowing to environmentalists' concerns about stocks of the giant fish found mainly in the Mediterranean.
Monaco has proposed protecting bluefin tuna, much prized by sushi fans in Japan and around the world, by listing it under appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
"France's position is to support Monaco's proposal to list bluefin tuna under appendix I of CITES," said a government official.
The decision could anger fishermen in France and other fishing nations, as bluefin tuna commands high prices in Japan, where 80 percent of the catch is exported.
The European Union has come close to supporting the proposal, but fishing nations Spain, Italy, France, Cyprus, Greece and Malta last September voiced their opposition.
France's policy change could be decisive at the next CITES meeting in Qatar in March, after Italy already said last week it would back a ban.
(Reporting by Michel Rose)
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