During its annual meeting, held from 9-15 November 2009, in Recife, Brazil, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) adopted new measures aimed at stabilizing Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks.
ICCAT reduced the total allowable catch from 22,000 tonnes in 2009 to 13,500 for 2010.
The measure was accompanied by a decrease in […]
During its annual meeting, held from 9-15 November 2009, in Recife, Brazil, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) adopted new measures aimed at stabilizing Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks.
ICCAT reduced the total allowable catch from 22,000 tonnes in 2009 to 13,500 for 2010. The measure was accompanied by a decrease in the fishing season by one month for purse seiners, and improved mechanisms for the evaluation of parties’ control efforts. However, conservation NGOs say that such a decrease is not going to recover the species. It is recalled that the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), to be held in March 2010 in Doha, Qatar, will consider Monaco’s proposal to list bluefin tuna in CITES Appendix I.
Links to further information
ICCAT press release, 16 November 2009
ICTSD Bridges Trade BioRes, 27 November 2009