Action sought on Indian Ocean tuna - a podcast by BBC World Service

The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission is meeting this week to try and protect the fish species. European vessels take home the biggest proportion of the stock, meaning local fishing communities often miss out, and tuna levels are depleting. Adam Ziyad is director general of the Maldives fisheries ministry, and vice-chair of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, and discusses the potential impact of over-fishing. And we get wider context from John Burton, from conservation organisation the International Pole and Line Foundation. Also in the programme, last year the commodities trader Mercuria paid $36m for 10,000 tonnes of copper blister, which is the impure form of the metal. But on delivery, it turned out to be painted paving slabs instead, and we find out more from Andy Hoffman, who has been covering the story for Bloomberg. Plus, as the full force of coronavirus lockdowns hit last year, we spoke to three professional musicians from different continents, to hear how they'd been impacted. We get an update from New York-based violinist Jennifer Koh, Guillem Bolto of Barcelona-based lockdown band Stay Homas, and singer Berita Khumalo, who was born and raised in Zimbabwe, but is now based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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