In a position statement, ISSF outlines many other issues in need of discussion at the 13th Regular Session Meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) in Nadi, Fiji, from 5 to 9 December.<\/p>\n
These include collecting data on support vessels, adopting e-monitoring standards, raising the observer coverage requirement for longline fleets and improving transparency in the WCPFC compliance monitoring process.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs stewards of the world\u2019s largest tuna fishing grounds, WCPFC members carry a significant proportion of responsibility for the sustainable management of global tuna,\u201d said ISSF President Susan Jackson. \u201cThe region has shown an active willingness to improve the way its fisheries are managed and protected. However, there is still progress to be made, including for the region\u2019s bigeye stock.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although bigeye catches in 2015 were 16% lower than in 2014, short-term projections reviewed by the 12th Regular Session of the WCPFC Scientific Committee (SC12) show that bigeye remains overfished. To end overfishing, fishing mortality needs to be reduced by about 36%. Skipjack tuna also is at risk of overfishing unless the Target Reference Point (TRP) is maintained and effective capacity management curbs potential increases in fishing effort.<\/p>\n
In all ocean regions, ISSF has recommended adoption and execution of harvest control strategies, which guide fisheries management decisions. For WCPFC, ISSF is advocating adhering to the 2015 harvest strategy work plan, which requires the RFMO to determine a rebuilding time frame for bigeye, management objectives for albacore tuna, and acceptable levels of risk so that Management Strategy Evaluations (MSE) and other work can move forward in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reducing catches of bigeye tuna and using non-entangling FADs to protect sharks are among the changes advocated for Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) fisheries by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10191,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions\/10191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10189"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}