The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meeting ended Friday in Guam, with a top tuna source, who asked to remain anonymous, labeling it a disaster.
“Someone once described a committee as ‘an animal with four hind legs.’ If so, the WCPFC plenary is a super committee! To say that it is dysfunctional is a gross understatement,” said the source, from an Asia-based tuna trader.
“The concept of managing the tuna resources ‘throughout the range’ was comprehensively ignored --as usual. The plenum spent much of the week listening to reports that delegates should have already read, and discussing relatively petty issues that could have been decided elsewhere,” he told IntraFish.
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