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Originally posted on Sea Pact. Earlier this month I attended the 104th Meeting of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission in Lisbon, as part of Sea Pact’s involvement in the All Tunas 2028 initiative. It was my first RFMO meeting. I’ve sat through plenty of domestic US fishery management council meetings, so I went in wondering […]

Thomas Horig / Ocean Image Bank This piece is part of a series spotlighting leaders at ICCAT and the progress toward sustainable fisheries in the Atlantic. 2026 marks the 60th anniversary of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). Now with almost 60 members, ICCAT has led many key advancements in fisheries […]

The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) held its annual meeting in the historic city of Lisbon, Portugal last week and took the opportunity to make its own mark on history. With adoption of a management procedure (MP) for Pacific bluefin tuna, as well as a measure to implement the MP-based catch limits starting in 2027, […]

Credit: Kurt Arrigo / Ocean Image Bank The environmental impacts of global climate change influence marine ecosystems in multiple ways, including changes in productivity, abundance, and spatial distribution of species. These changes have important implications for fisheries and are expected to become more pronounced with time as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Multiple fishery […]

Source: Wikimedia Commons. 1. What is Conxemar and why did it decide to attend SPRFMO? Conxemar is the Spanish Association of Wholesalers, Importers, Processors and Exporters of Fishery and Aquaculture Products. It represents an important part of the seafood value chain in Spain and Europe, especially in processing and trade. Our work is closely linked […]

Blog originally published on FAO’s Common Oceans Program Newsroom. Countries strengthen skills in management procedures through regional training 16/07/2026 15 -16 July 2026 – Antigua, Guatemala – Fisheries scientists and managers from across Central America gathered in Antigua for the first regional workshop on management procedures for sustainable fisheries, under the framework of the Organization of […]

Photo by Vincent van Zeijst. CC BY-SA 3.0. For more than a decade, fisheries managers in Norway, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Russia have driven the population of northeast Atlantic mackerel to a historic low. These coastal States, which co-manage the high seas mackerel fishery and are also […]

English below. Un atelier sur les procédures de gestion (PG), également appelées stratégies de pêche (de l’anglais « harvest strategies »), pour les pêcheries de petits pélagiques en Afrique de l’Ouest s’est tenu les 19 et 20 mai à Nouakchott, République islamique de Mauritanie, sous le haut patronage de Son Excellence Moctar Ahmed Bouceif, ministre des Pêches, […]

Photo by Rod Waddington. CC BY-SA 2.0. The management procedure (MP) framework — management objectives, reference points, harvest control rules (HCRs), and MPs — is current best practice in fisheries management, replacing traditional reactive management with a proactive approach based on a pre-agreed decision framework. MPs – also known as harvest strategies – have themselves […]

Earlier this month, Ash Wilson (The Pew Charitable Trusts) and I co-convened a workshop titled ‘Operationalizing Ecosystem-Based Management of Forage Species using Management Strategy Evaluation.’ The workshop was part of the program at the  Small Pelagic Fish International Symposium hosted by ICES, PICES, and FAO in La Paz, Mexico. Held on May 4, 2026, the […]