Currently, four Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) manage global tuna resources:
1. IATTC Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (1949)
2. ICCAT International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (1969)
3. IOTC Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (1996)
4. WCPFC Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (2004)
Current challenges related to RFMO’s:
- Building consensus amongst members
- Effectively limiting capacity or limiting fishing
- Ensuring effective compliance with fishery regulations
- Taking effective action for violating fisheries regulations
- Improving the science and information / new technology
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Appendix 8a: Tuna Fish Sustainability