South Korea: NPFC Scientific Committee recommends drastically reducing the appropriate amount of saury catch

The Scientific Committee of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC) has recommended a significant reduction in the appropriate catch of saury. The National Academy of Fisheries Science announced that at the 6th Scientific Committee of the NPFC held on the 15th and 18th, the saury resource evaluation, which is the basis for the catch quota for next year's North Pacific saury, has been completed. At the 6th Scientific Committee of the NPFC, scientists from Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, and Russia recommended that in order to recover saury resources, excessive fishing should be reduced and the appropriate catch should be reduced by 42% from the current 333,750 tons to 192,800 tons. . The catch of North Pacific saury from 2019 to 2020 was very low. This is believed to be due to the large increase in the number of long-distance beacon fishing boats that catch saury in the North Pacific over the past decade or so. As for the optimal catch of North Pacific saury calculated by the ...