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The article focuses on the proposal of Japan for mitigating bigeye crisis in areas under the jurisdiction of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC). It mentions that the country submitted its proposal to the commission in November 2010 which called for the limitation on the capacity of purse seiners operating in the area of WCPFC jurisdiction. However, the proposal has received disapproval from various member nations including Nauru, China and Marshall Islands.

The article focuses on the growth of purse seining activity in the regions under the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC). It mentions that the growth in purse seining has been caused by industrialized nations including Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Meanwhile, the commission has established an approach that will ban setting on fish aggregation devices (FADs) to mitigate the take of bigeye tuna by purse seiners.

This article reports on the decimation of bluefin tuna stocks and Japan's efforts at conservation. At a 60-nation gathering in Kobe, Japan urged the world's tuna conservation organizations to join forces in curbing "purse-seine" fishing, which uses large, circular nets that catch everything in their path. Japan, along with Australia and America, also proposed a global monitoring system, in a bid to protect the world's tuna stocks.