Collaboration to achieve enhanced tuna stock assessments in the EU

Published Jan 30, 2024

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The Europêche Tuna Group recently convened a meeting between industry and science stakeholders to discuss improving tuna stock assessments. The meeting emphasized the need for accessible and consistent data recovery methodologies, and raised concerns about potential misinterpretations of scientific advice due to uncertainties in stock assessment. The negative impact of uneven management actions on purse seine fishing fleets was also discussed. The multispecies Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) for tropical tunas, a tool that assesses the impact of fishing and management strategies on all tropical tuna stocks in a region, was a key topic. The meeting was seen as a step towards developing effective solutions through mutual understanding.

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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. ...

Source: Fish Focus