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October 12, 2021
Certified tuna fisheries in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) could be suspended without urgent action by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC). That warning was issued by The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) in a July 2021 announcement. Industry stakeholders in the WCPO need the WCPFC to adopt precautionary, science-based harvest strategies […]
Read moreAugust 26, 2021
Image details: Introduction to Management Strategy Evaluation Training Course group photo – Credit: ICES, 2021 This week, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is demonstrating their commitment to harvest strategy capacity building by hosting a training course, titled “Introduction to Management Strategy Evaluation” (MSE). Expert scientists in the field of MSE are instructing the […]
Read moreAugust 12, 2021
In light of the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers and fishermen alike were forced to adapt to a different world, both on the water and in the negotiation room. Regardless of this challenge, the work towards the development of harvest strategies in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) has continued with the […]
Read moreJuly 29, 2021
This EU-focused factsheet on the benefits of harvest strategies to European scientists, stakeholders, and managers is now available in 1 additional language: Spanish! Estrategias de captura: la gestión pesquera del siglo XXI
Read moreJuly 26, 2021
This EU-focused factsheet on the benefits of harvest strategies to European scientists, stakeholders, and managers is now available in 2 additional languages: Portuguese and Italian! Estratégias de captura: Gestão das Pescas para o Século XXI Strategie di cattura: gestione delle attività di pesca per il XXI secolo
Read moreJuly 15, 2021
This EU-focused factsheet on the benefits of harvest strategies to European scientists, stakeholders, and managers is now available in 2 additional languages: French and German! Stay tuned for Portuguese, coming soon. Stratégies de pêche – la solution de gestion du 21e siècle — Fangstrategien: Fischereibewirtschaftung für das 21. Jahrhundert
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What will happen if the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission does not adopt #harveststrategies?
Fisheries that support 73% of all @MSCecolabel certified tuna could face suspension. #WCPFC http://ow.ly/W5Z250Gr6dN
"The stocks are in healthy shape, and that’s why it’s important to put in these harvest strategies now when tuna species are not up against the wall and it hasn’t become a crisis" says @MSCecolabel's Bill Holden regarding #WCPFC & WCPO tuna.
https://tinyurl.com/s6ww4zxx
The @MSCecolabel warns:
Adopt harvest strategies at #WCPFC by the 2022 Commission meeting... or MSC-certified WCPO fisheries will face suspension in 2023.
Will decision-makers take note?
https://tinyurl.com/jv5me7jc
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