Europêche supports strengthening ICCAT’s surveillance, monitoring, and control measures

Published Nov 14, 2023

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Europêche, a European fishing industry association, is supporting efforts to enhance surveillance and control measures by the International Commission for the conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) for better management of tropical tunas. ICCAT is currently having its extraordinary meeting in Egypt, where discussions are centered around tropical tuna management, bigeye tuna allocation, and Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) measures. Europêche is hoping that the quota allocation negotiation reflects the efforts made by the European purse seine fleet to reduce fishing effort, while also calling for a level playing field among all fleets and better monitoring of vessel numbers and devices used.
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Europêche supports strengthening ICCAT’s surveillance, monitoring and control measures for a better management of tropical tunas. The International Commission for the conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is holding its 24th extraordinary meeting in New Cairo, Egypt, from November 13th to 20th. Tropical tuna management, bigeye tuna allocation and FAD measures will concentrate the attention. Bigeye catches in ICCAT have decreased in recent years, being now close to the current Total Allowable Catch (TAC) of 62000 tons. According to the ICCAT’s Scientific Committee (Standing Committee on Research and Statistics or SCRS), there is room for an increase. This increase would give the opportunity to attribute additional catch limits to developing countries. Anne-France Mattlet, director of Europêche Tuna Group, indicates: “In the last few years, the European purse seine fleet has contributed its fair share to significantly reducing fishing effort. We hope this will be reflected in the ...
Source: Fish Focus

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