Pacific Islands Fisheries Agency warns Pacific bigeye tuna is overfished
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [PacNews] - August 14, 2014 -
HONIARA, The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, (FFA) is warning that decisive action from all stakeholders in the Pacific's multi-billion-dollar Fishery must follow new data showing Bigeye Tuna is overfished.
Newly released findings from the annual Science Committee meeting tasked with monitoring tuna stocks in the Western and Central Pacific have already sparked a call from Pacific nations for larger, distant water members of the WCPFC to get behind their membership obligations when it comes to reporting tuna and by-catch data.
Scientists at the Secretariat produce the stock assessments for Bigeye, Yellowfin, Skipjack and Albacore tuna annually for the Pacific Community. For the first time ever their estimate is that Bigeye is being overfished- the most critical category of threatened conservation sustainability.
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