The demand for shark fins and meat has changed the picture of fisheries for highly migratory species. Traditionally considered by ICCAT as undesirable bycatch, sharks are now directly targeted or are appreciated as a desirable secondary catch. As a consequence, sharks now rank among the key species caught in ICCAT fisheries, representing 11% of all … Read more
Oceana acknowledges the significant progress made by ICCAT in recent years towards the improved fisheries management of highly migratory species in the Convention area. Indeed, ICCAT has become a point of reference for fisheries management worldwide, with respect to some of the measures it has adopted. However, proper implementation and compliance with ICCAT management rules … Read more
Following last week’s World Parks Congress in Sydney, the IUCN red list was updated, showing that the Pacific Bluefin tuna, Chinese puffer fish, American eel, Chinese cobra and the Australian butterfly are currently being pushed to the limit. The Pacific Bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) was moved from the “least at risk” category to now be … Read more
Proposal to strictly ban shark finning blocked by Asian nations for 6th year in a row Today, the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has closed its doors in Genoa (Italy), having failed once again to look beyond Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna. For this stock, ICCAT Contracting Parties … Read more
OCEANA: ICCAT mantiene in vita il tonno rosso ma uccide la conservazione di squali e pesce spada. La quota del tonno rosso è stata aumentata sulla base dei dati scientifici confermando un iniziale miglioramento di questo stock. I Paesi falliscono nella gestione di altre specie quali squali e pesce spade del mediterraneo. Oggi il meeting … Read more
Today, Oceana has called upon the 49 Contracting Parties to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) to examine and take action on activities related to illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the ICCAT Convention area, involving pirate vessels that are blacklisted by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine … Read more
Lack of agreement for key commercial stocks like mackerel, blue whiting or herring Today, the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC), responsible for managing fishery resources in the international waters of that region, has finished its week-long annual meeting in London. Oceana, an NGO observer to NEAFC, strongly welcomes the measures adopted for shark management … Read more
Cepesca and Oceana have called upon the 49 Contracting Parties to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) to close legal loopholes that still allow some fleets to carry out illegal finning of sharks (i.e., removing shark fins at sea while discarding the bodies), by adopting a measure requiring all sharks to … Read more
EU maintains inaction despite accounting for 90% of the fleet responsible. Oceana, the international marine conservation organisation, has sounded the alarm today on the European Union’s reluctance to take measures for the recovery of Mediterranean swordfish. According to an assessment carried out by scientists earlier this year, the stock is overfished; it has declined steeply … Read more
While the plight of the bluefin tuna is grabbing much of the world’s attention at this week’s meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in Marrakesh, Morocco, some other vulnerable species have now been given the spotlight they deserve. Sharks, the powerful but vulnerable predators of the oceans, have been … Read more
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