The sound of the gavel at the Commission’s conclusion ushered in a new era of sustainable fisheries management for the eastern Pacific. IATTC has now joined the club of other tRFMOs that have applied MSE and harvest strategies for their fisheries, and a growing community of RFMOs that are formalizing their focus on climate change.

IATTC enters this year’s Commission meeting with rare momentum that could be a game changer for management of tunas and tuna-like species in the eastern Pacific.  This is an opportunity not to be missed.

Join www.harveststrategies.org and our partners as we provide an update on harvest strategy development and implementation at each of the regional fisheries management organizations dedicated to tunas (tRFMOs).

Following an agreement on management objectives and other harvest strategy elements by both IATTC and WCPFC in 2022, a full harvest strategy for North Pacific albacore is scheduled to be adopted this year.  Achieving this will require several steps, beginning in the first week of July when WCPFC’s Northern Committee convenes to discuss management of WCPFC’s fisheries occurring in mainly temperate waters.

WCPFC members are getting ready for the first in a series of discussions that should be used to address a critical piece of unfished business, namely to ensure that the newly agreed MP is implemented on the water.