More than 60 countries will negotiate in Seville the fishing of Atlantic and Mediterranean tuna.

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) will negotiate in Seville the fishing of species such as bluefin tuna, at its annual assembly that will be held from this Monday until the 24th. ICCAT, formed by 60 nations, will negotiate the fishing of species such as the Mediterranean bluefin tuna, the bonito, or the swordfish. It will hold its annual meeting, in a hybrid format, in which this year the central negotiation is that of the bluefin tuna fishing, a flagship species that has recovered and for which Spain claims an increase in catches. The ICCAT, or ICCAT, better known by its English acronym, is the intergovernmental regional fishery management organization that manages migratory fish populations, such as tunas; it is composed of more than 60 nations, both coastal and interested in these fisheries, and in it the European Commission negotiates on behalf of the 27 EU countries. The distribution of the fishing of the Atlantic and Eastern ...