The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas adopted a swordfish management plan, but Japan and China blocked efforts to strengthen the shark finning ban

게시됨 2024년 11월 19일

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The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has developed a management procedure for Atlantic swordfish, shifting towards a more science-based, less political approach, as advocated by The Pew Charitable Trusts and other NGOs. This new procedure includes a climate change test to adapt to shifting fish stocks and is the RFMO's first non-tuna species management procedure. However, a proposal to strengthen ICCAT’s ban on shark finning, which is facing opposition from Japan and China, was not passed during the annual meeting.

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The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has adopted a management procedure for Atlantic swordfish, but another proposal to strengthen the commission’s ban on shark finning was derailed by Japan and China. ICCAT held its annual meeting from 11 to 18 November and had already completed a management strategy evaluation for North Atlantic swordfish. NGOs like The Pew Charitable Trusts pushed for the ICCAT – a regional fishery management organization (RFMO) – to adopt the strategy to move away from annual quota negotiations toward an automated system that makes management decisions less political and more science-based. Esther Wozniak, a manager on Pew’s international fisheries team working in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific fisheries, said ICCAT’s adoption of a management procedure for swordfish is an important milestone in the RFMO’s efforts to modernize fisheries management. “Thanks to leadership over many years from Canada, the United States, and ...

출처: Seafoodsource