The EU is “concerned” that the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) failed to adopt robust, science-based conservation measures for tropical tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, the European Commission said in a press release published on Friday 17 February.
A last-minute agreement was reached at the IATTC meeting (which ended on 10 February in La Jolla, California) on catch limits for certain fisheries in 2017, but “falls short” of what is needed to guarantee long-term...