Brussels, 26/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 26 May, the bluefin tuna fishing season opened in the Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic, and will run until 24 June.
These dates correspond to industrial fishing by purse seiners and the European Commission states in a press release that this is the first time since the bluefin tuna stock recovery plan was set in place in 2006 that European quotas are up (annual increase of 20% from 2015 to 2017): 9372.92 tonnes in 2015 for all the...