Collaboration to achieve enhanced tuna stock assessments in the EU

Collaboration to achieve enhanced tuna stock assessments. EU tuna purse seine fleet representatives and scientists to continue collaboration to achieve enhanced tuna stock assessments. The Europêche Tuna Group organised on January 23rd in Montpellier its second meeting between industry and science stakeholders at European Level entitled: ‘Towards robust stock evaluations for better management’. The meeting gathered 23 experts in Montpellier, including a Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) representative. On a first panel, scientists from the French Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), the Instituto español de oceanografia (IEO) and the Spanish AZTI attended and explained their needs to produce better estimates for the stock assessment process, essentially pointing out the importance of data availability but also of clear, stable and consistent data recovery methodologies. Some new methods based on buoy, sonar or even genotype are promising to determine stocks abundance. ...