“Despite cumulative signs of potential illegal fishing, and our repeated real-time communication to all the relevant management bodies, including ICCAT, the European Commission and countries like Spain and Italy, to our knowledge no at-sea inspections have taken place so far”, added Dr Tudela.
Illegal tuna fishing suspected
According to WWF, two large non-Mediterranean fleets have been spotted in some of the main Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishing grounds over the last two weeks.
