The European Union succeeded in securing a number of key conservation measures adopted at the recent meeting of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), the European Commission said on Wednesday 23 April (see EUROPE B13625A9).
For the very first time, all major tropical tuna in the IOTC have specific catch limits (total allowable catches, or TACs). The binding catch limits for yellowfin tuna, bigeye tuna and now skipjack tuna marks “a major step to ensure that the tropical tuna fishery...