On Monday 27 October in Luxembourg, the European fisheries ministers prepared the positions that the European Union will defend at the next meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), to be held in Seville, Spain, from 17 to 24 November.
The Spanish Fisheries Minister, Luis Planas, stressed that “scientific reports show a very significant recovery in bluefin tuna stocks, with a 19.3% improvement in the population in the Eastern Atlantic and...