FRANCE BLUEFIN TUNA

A wholesale retailer checks Bluefin tunas caught in the Indian Ocean, at the Rungis wholesale market, south of Paris, early Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. France favors a ban on the export of bluefin tuna but wants an 18-month delay before the measure would be imposed, Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)