South Pacific Tuna Corp's Hines Takes Issue with ISSF Move to Freeze New Vessel Construction
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] By Peggy Parker - May 27, 2016
In a press release this week, Doug Hines, executive director of South Pacific Tuna Corporation and US partner in the Global Companies, called a recent action by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) “truly confusing considering their 2012 announcement created a rush to building new vessels, which created over capacity of producing tonnage contributing to increase in catch, reduced values, and further pressure on regional stocks.”
Hines attended Tuna 2016, a conference on tuna management held in Bangkok earlier this week. He went to understand “the intent behind the recent announcement of the leading processors and marketing groups that founded and oversee the ISSF to reverse their capacity conservation measure as well as associated measure regarding investment of 2012, which called for the global freeze to new vessel tuna capacity.”
The exception was part of a recent Memorandum of Understanding with the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) that allows fishing capacity in...
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