ICCAT updated catch limits and allocation for bluefin tuna, showing once again the Regional Fisheries Management Organisation’s capacity to generate consensus. However, despite, or perhaps because of, the extremely high number of proposals, ICCAT ended up concentrating almost exclusively on this decision and other pressing issues were left to the shadows.
Purse seine fishery’s existence in the Indian Ocean is at stake, after an inapplicable decision against drifting Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) was imposed by vote in the IOTC.
Coastal developing states’ economies are severely threatened
Europêche represented the European fishing fleet at the 27th ordinary meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) which just ended yesterday following a week of intensive negotiations via video conference.
Europêche represented the European fishing fleet at the 26th ordinary meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), which ended on Monday 25 November in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
ICCAT updated catch limits and allocation for bluefin tuna, showing once again the Regional Fisheries Management Organisation’s capacity to generate consensus. However, despite, or perhaps because of, the extremely high number of proposals, ICCAT ended up concentrating almost exclusively on this decision and other pressing issues were left to the shadows.