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Brussels was slammed for harking back to the days of empire after it proposed insufficient measures to tackle overfishing of yellowfin tuna, while being the largest fisher of the near threatened species. Smaller than its Atlantic and Pacific bluefin cousins, the yellowfin is considered one of the ocean s fastest and strongest predators. The species is massively overfished in the Indian Ocean, to the extent that supermarket brands Tesco, Co-op and Princes made the unpre