No mercy for overfished yellowfin tuna at Indian Ocean fisheries meeting

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Members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, the intergovernmental body that regulates fishing for tuna and tuna-like species in the region, met May 13-17 in Bangkok.

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The Maldives, whose fleet mainly catches skipjack and yellowfin, also welcomed the overall outcome of the meeting, praising “the hard work” of the delegations of South Africa, Indonesia, South Korea, the EU, Pakistan, Mauritius and Seychelles to get the FAD measure adopted: “Maldives is pleased that after years of intense negotiations and setbacks, a drifting FAD management measure was adopted,” the...

Fished swordfish . Delegates at the IOTC adopted the first management measures for swordfish as well as skipjack tuna fisheries in the Indian Ocean. Image by José Antonio Gil Martínez via When it came to regulating fisheries for other species, however, the IOTC meeting did make some progress. In particular, members approved the first management procedures for, neither of which is currently considered overfished. A management procedure is a science-based framework to define quotas and catch limits to achieve long-term objectives, such as the health of stocks and their fisheries.to reduce and monitor bycatch of shark species was withdrawn during the meeting.

 

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