Europeche, NGOs: 'The real threat for tuna stocks is overfishing'

Europeche, the European body representing the fishing sector met Jan. 26 with various NGOs in the European Parliament to discuss the use of fish aggregating devices (FADs) and how to improve tuna fisheries management.

The meeting was hosted by MEP Ulrike Rodust and attended by Socialist and Democrat MEPs and allowed the tuna sector to convey its initiatives for better FAD management.

The sector said a removal of all FADs, suggested by some NGOs, would shift existing effort from skipjack tuna to yellowfin tuna, leading to the latter's certain overexploitation.

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