China Tuna Industry Group Holdings has withdrawn its application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to become a publicly traded company because of adverse publicity, says Undercurrent News. In documents prepared as part of the proposed Initial Public Offering, the company said “it intended to circumvent international conservation limits on tuna – by simply ignoring them” and saying the Chinese government was unlikely to enforce the rules, said a story in the Guardian and produced in partnership with FERN, one of the critical stories about the proposal. Undercurrent News said Chinese officials told an environmental group that China Tuna had not registered its boats with any national fisheries organization. The company says it supports tuna conservation measures.