Tuna measures adopted at ICCAT meeting

2019-11-27T09:56:00

Tuna measures adopted at ICCAT meeting

Achieving new management measures for tropical tuna fisheries was a key objective of the 2019 ICCAT annual meeting, where a one-year interim measure was adopted to end overfishing of bigeye tuna, to overhaul FAD management and to reduce juvenile mortality of bigeye and yellowfin tunas.

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