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Encouraging Progress at IOTC: New Measures for Key Stocks and Renewed Commitments to MSEs

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April 23, 2025
Guest Blog: Not Just for Tunas Anymore - Management Procedures for Blue Sharks Are on the Horizon

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April 15, 2025
Guest Blog: Encouraging a Long-Term Vision for Deep-Sea Fisheries Management

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March 17, 2025
South Pacific Charts the Path Forward on MPs for Key Stocks

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February 26, 2025
Guest Blog: Building Capacity for Management Strategy Evaluation within the North Pacific Fisheries Commission

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February 12, 2025
20x25: Big opportunity to advance management procedures this year

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February 3, 2025
Progress and Challenges in Pacific Fisheries Management at WCPFC

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December 12, 2024
ICCAT Advances Management Procedures for 8 Key Stocks

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November 20, 2024
GFCM Embraces Sustainable Fishing in the Adriatic with Two New Harvest Strategies

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November 15, 2024
Taking Action in Suva: The WCPFC’s Critical Role in Securing the Future for Key Fisheries

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November 14, 2024
Seizing the Future: ICCAT's Next Steps for Sustainable Tuna and Swordfish Management

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November 6, 2024
Advancing Sustainable Fisheries Management in the Mediterranean

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November 1, 2024
Guest Blog: Building Capacity and Ensuring Compliance - My Journey with Harvest Strategies

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October 30, 2024
Pacific Possible: Two RFMOs Should Lead the Way By Committing to Develop Management Procedures for Squids

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September 19, 2024
IATTC Annual Commission Meeting: Key Outcomes and Future Work for 2025

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September 12, 2024
Advancing Harvest Strategies in the Eastern Pacific: What’s on Tap Next Week at IATTC

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August 30, 2024
Introduction to Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE): Part 2 of Conversations with Blue Matter Science's Dr. T...

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August 27, 2024
Introduction to Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE): Conversations with Blue Matter Science's Dr. Tom Carruth...

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August 23, 2024
Guest Blog: The Importance of the Tropical Tuna Harvest Strategy for Indonesian Small-scale Fishers

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August 1, 2024
Guest Blog: The Harvest Strategy - A Game Changer for Sustainable Fisheries Management

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July 18, 2024
Guest Blog: Fishing for Solutions - How Harvest Strategies Can Build Climate Resiliency for Pacific Saury

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July 9, 2024
New Horizons for Swordfish and Skipjack Tuna Management

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May 17, 2024
A Call to Action: Advancing Sustainable Fisheries Management in the Indian Ocean

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May 8, 2024
Guest blog: Harvest Strategies and tuna RFMOs – Introducing a New Tool to Track Progress & Encourage Impro...

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April 5, 2024
Management procedures offer hope for these small yet important fishes

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April 3, 2024
Guest Blog: The limits of MSC certification in improving harvest strategies ...

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March 28, 2024
Guest Blog: More harvest strategies for more stocks can help fisheries managers mitigate political pressure an...

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March 1, 2024
WCPFC ends year on high note for harvest strategies

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December 22, 2023
In an up and down year, the Pacific comes out on top for harvest strategy development in 2023

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December 18, 2023
Guest Blog: Modern Fisheries Management – Including Harvest Strategies – Require Modernized Monitoring Tools...

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December 4, 2023
As COP28 nears, harvest strategies will be essential to making climate change resilient fisheries

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November 29, 2023
Pacific fisheries managers should act to advance management procedures for the world’s largest source of canne...

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November 27, 2023
Missed Opportunities to Advance Harvest Strategies at ICCAT

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November 21, 2023
Building on last year's harvest strategies successes, adoption for North Atlantic swordfish and more is on the...

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November 8, 2023
Why a harvest strategy matters for markets in the Northeast Atlantic’s ‘mackerel war’

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October 30, 2023
Webinar with representatives from all five tuna-RFMOs highlighted the importance of capacity building and othe...

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October 17, 2023
A path to sustainability emerges for Pacific saury

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September 27, 2023
Guest Blog: Harvest Strategy for Yellowfin Tuna for the Western and Central Pacific? Projected benefits abound...

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August 23, 2023
With albacore adoption, IATTC sets up WCPFC to finalize the first trans-Pacific harvest strategy.

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August 16, 2023
Harvest strategy for Western and Central Pacific skipjack validated by first run of results

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August 14, 2023
Victoria, Canada: Is IATTC ready to join the club and adopt its first MSE-tested harvest strategy?

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August 2, 2023
North Pacific albacore is another opportunity for harvest strategies to cross a new frontier

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June 26, 2023
Time for WCPFC to heed its skipjack management procedure

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June 21, 2023
The 2023 SAC meeting is an opportunity to get IATTC ship-shape for harvest strategies now, and those to come

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May 11, 2023
On World Tuna Day 2023, all eyes are on the Indian Ocean

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May 2, 2023
Harveststrategies.org partners with FAO to advance harvest strategies for tuna fisheries

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April 17, 2023
New Kid on the Block: What does the new BBNJ agreement mean for RFMOs and harvest strategies?

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April 6, 2023
Poor catches of north Pacific saury show the need for a harvest strategy

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March 31, 2023
Who Gets a Slice of the Pie? Harvest Strategy Implementation in the Indian Ocean

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March 16, 2023
For 2023 - is there a more impressive word than 'monumental'?

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January 17, 2023
Annual wrap up – 2022 was a monumental year for harvest strategies, 2023 could be even better

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December 23, 2022
Voices from the Pacific: New Video Makes Case for Harvest Strategies in the WCPO

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December 12, 2022
WCPFC adopts management procedure for skipjack but more to do next year

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December 9, 2022
The MSC Fisheries Standard 3.0: New but perhaps not improved

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December 6, 2022
At this year’s WCPFC meeting, be thankful for skipjack tuna

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November 22, 2022
Breaking News: HarvestStrategies.org Applauds ICCAT For Adoption of Management Procedure for Atlantic Bluefin ...

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November 21, 2022
No time to delay, markets should push for Harvest Strategy adoption

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November 10, 2022
ICCAT 2022 is one of the most important fisheries meetings in recent memory

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November 10, 2022
Harvest strategies at COP27: for food security, biodiversity, and a healthy ocean

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November 7, 2022
The Ocean Foundation and FAO launch groundbreaking knowledge hub for fisheries management

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November 2, 2022
Blog invité: La « Stratégie de Pêche » une dernière innovation pour la gestion de pêche.

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October 4, 2022
Open letter seeks to steer the world’s largest tuna fishery from delaying one of the best opportunities to saf...

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September 28, 2022
New Animation Celebrates the Remarkable Story of the Southern Bluefin Tuna

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September 16, 2022
Guest Blog: Harvest strategies for depleted herring stock deserve stronger political will

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September 14, 2022
Pacific Saury, in decline, will benefit from MSE

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September 9, 2022
To feed the world, harvest control rules needed for tunas, leading report urges

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September 7, 2022
Delaying a harvest strategy poses risks to Pacific skipjack

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August 30, 2022
Guest Blog: Setting our Sights on Fisheries Management Success through Harvest Strategies

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August 10, 2022
IATTC passes the baton to WCPFC to adopt first ever harvest strategy by a Pacific tRFMO

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August 5, 2022
BREAKING NEWS: IOTC adopts milestone management procedure for bigeye tuna

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May 20, 2022
Bigeye tuna expected to be second species to have a harvest strategy in place at IOTC

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May 12, 2022
Managers poised to make important decisions in run up to 2022 adoption of Atlantic bluefin tuna harvest strate...

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May 5, 2022
After 2021 Harvest Strategy Successes, Eyes Turn to 2022 RFMO Season

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December 15, 2021
Guest Blog: Alarm Bell for Sourcing Sustainable Tuna: get Harvest Strategies done, starting in the Western and...

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November 22, 2021
Guest Blog: It’s Good to Talk – Unless it Clashes with Summer Holidays

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November 10, 2021
Managers at ICCAT have historic opportunity to advance management procedures at November Commission meeting

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November 3, 2021
Communication efforts ramping up for the Atlantic bluefin tuna MSE

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October 28, 2021
MSC warns that tuna fisheries in the WCPO will lose certification if the development of harvest strategies con...

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October 12, 2021
ICES Holds Training Course on MSE

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August 26, 2021
Kudos for Capacity Building in the WCPO

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August 12, 2021
NEW LANGUAGE AVAILABLE: Spanish: Harvest strategies: Fisheries Management for the 21st Century

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July 29, 2021
NEW LANGUAGES AVAILABLE: Portuguese & Italian: Harvest strategies: Fisheries Management for the 21st Century

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July 26, 2021

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NEW LANGUAGES AVAILABLE: French & German: Harvest strategies: Fisheries Management for the 21st Century

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July 15, 2021
Harvest strategies: Fisheries Management for the 21st Century

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June 28, 2021
Workshop on the future of Atlantic bluefin tuna: fisheries, management and the market

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June 20, 2021

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New Blog Alert! - NPFC is taking steps toward incorporating MSE into its decision-making. In our latest blog, Dr. Janelle Curtis explores how a recent MSE capacity-building workshop equips members with the tools to future-proof fisheries in the region.

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