IATTC Makes Progress on Decreasing Effort on Bigeye and Yellowfin Tunas
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] - February 16, 2017
Eastern Pacific fisheries managers finally reached an agreement last week on fishing for bigeye and yellowfin tunas. It took more than seven months and the measures are not without criticism, but the measures align with other international management and acknowledge excessive fishing effort may harm the tuna resources.
The 21 members of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Association agreed to align the total purse seine catch limits for yellowfin and bigeye tuna by set type and that there are no national allocations.
The purse seine vessels of capacity classes 4 to 6 (more than 182 metric tons carrying capacity) and longline vessels more than 24 meters of all members and cooperating non-members of the IATTC must stop fishing in the Convention Area for 62 days in 2017, according to the IATTC resolution. The closures must be in one of two periods: between July 29 and Sept. 28 or between Nov. 18, 2017 and Jan. 18, 2018.
The members did not agree to limit ...
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