Bluefin tuna fishing, at its central moment with the entry of the purse seine fleet in Spain

The 2023 eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishing campaign will intensify this midnight, with the addition of the purse seine fleet to a fishery that is in good health in terms of abundance of specimens. The purse seine boats - the most industrial ones - will start the season this midnight and are already sailing towards the waters of the Balearic Islands to extract the tuna; The campaign lasts until July 1, but it is foreseeable that these ships will exhaust their quotas in a few days. Spain is the European country that extracts the most bluefin tuna and has a total quota of 6,783.67 tons by 2023, according to the agreements of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), where it has been accredited also the recovery of the species. Bluefin tuna fishing already began in February in the Canary Islands fishing ground, as they arrive there earlier because it is a migratory species; The almadrabas of Cádiz began their work in spring, ...