Scientists support increasing red tuna fishing by up to 20% at the Seville meeting

Scientists support increasing the bluefin tuna catch by between 12% and 20%, in the negotiation that will be held in November in Seville, as confirmed by the president of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), Ernesto Penas, in the podcast "Efeagro Punto de Encuentro". The president of ICCAT has analyzed, in a new episode of the podcast, the keys to the annual assembly of this organization, scheduled between November 17 and 24, in which more than 60 countries will negotiate the fishing of migratory species of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, with special attention to bluefin tuna. The podcast is available on the platforms Spreaker, Spotify, Ivoox, and YouTube. Penas has emphasized that bluefin tuna is a success story and that scientific reports support increasing the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) by "a few thousand tons" for 2026-2028. Spain is the European country that extracts the most bluefin tuna, with a quota of 6,783.67 tons, within the ...