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The organization responsible for managing tuna fishing quotas in the Indian Ocean failed to make headway on saving the sector’s most imperiled species, yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), at the body’s annual meeting this month. Members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) did, however, take steps to prevent another tuna stock, bigeye tuna (T. obesus), […]
All three commercially important tuna species in the Indian Ocean are at risk. On Feb. 5, countries hammered out an agreement in Mombasa, Kenya, on one the prickliest issues for tuna fisheries: the use of fish-aggregating devices, or FADs. Members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) agreed to reduce the number of drifting FADs […]
Members of the IOTC have once again, for the second time in under a year, failed to resolve a dispute on a ballot vote on a proposed drift FAD resolution.