Reins tighten on tuna, but NGOs want more

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) tightened the reigns on its Atlantic Ocean fisheries over the weekend with new rules for tuna, swordfish and silky sharks.

 “A lot happened, and a lot does not always happen at these meetings,” Pew Environment Group Director of International Policy Susan Lieberman told IntraFish. “This was the most that has happened in a very long time.”

Delegates of ICCAT, the go-to governing body for all tuna fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean, banned the capture of silky sharks and issued new management measures for tropical tuna, North Atlantic and Mediterranean swordfish, North and South Atlantic albacore and billfish.

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