ICCAT updated catch limits and allocation for bluefin tuna, showing once again the Regional Fisheries Management Organisation’s capacity to generate consensus. However, despite, or perhaps because of, the extremely high number of proposals, ICCAT ended up concentrating almost exclusively on this decision and other pressing issues were left to the shadows.

Europêche

After 9 days of intensive discussions on Atlantic tunas at the plenary meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), the results are perceived as being poor and unsatisfactory by the European fishing fleet. Europêche notes with great disappointment that ICCAT has not been able to reach a consensus to revise the management plan for tropical tunas, in particular for bigeye tuna, which is considered to be overexploited by ICCAT’s scientific committee (SCRS).