ISSF reports 85% of global tuna catch from healthy stocks

Of the total commercial tuna catch worldwide, 85% is sourced from stocks at ‘healthy’ levels of abundance, according to the latest International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) Status of the Stocks report. 11% of the total tuna catch came from overfished stocks,…

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The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) is found to have had a negligible impact on the conservation of skipjack and bigeye tuna in the WCPO

Questioning the effectiveness of MPAs in conserving tuna stocks

The first-ever quantitative evaluation of the contribution of no-take Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to the conservation of tropical tunas in the western and central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) has been published…

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