08/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 5 May, the European Commission adopted a proposal in which it asked the Council for a mandate to negotiate the adoption of measures, on behalf of the EU, in the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC). These measures include: - temporal closures for purse seine vessels catching bigeye, yellowfin and skipjack tuna (and also equivalent measures for longline vessels targeting tuna or swordfish stocks); - measures to control of fishing effort; -...