{"id":5594,"date":"2014-11-25T12:36:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:12:40","slug":"iccat-adopts-higher-quotas-for-western-eastern-bluefin-tuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/iccat-adopts-higher-quotas-for-western-eastern-bluefin-tuna\/","title":{"rendered":"ICCAT adopts higher quotas for western, eastern bluefin tuna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GENOA, ITALY \u2013 The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) concluded its annual meeting here on Nov. 17 and adopted, with overwhelming support, increases in both the western and eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna quotas.<\/p>\n<p>At press time, neither the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) nor ICCAT had issued details about the meeting.\u00a0 However, the American Bluefin Tuna Association (ABTA), whose executive director, Rich Ruais, was a member of the US delegation to ICCAT, reported that member nations agreed to increase the western quota from the current level of 1,750 metric tons (mt) to 2,000 mt, a 14% hike, for 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The US will receive about a 54% share of the increase with other western Atlantic fishing nations, most notably Canada and Japan, splitting the rest.\u00a0 In its meeting report, the ABTA noted that the most recent scientific advice would have supported an increase of up to 2,250 mt, but that NMFS, which has long resisted quota increases, urged a more conservative approach.<\/p>\n<p>In a Guest Column published in the November 2014 edition of CFN, Ruais said that the recent stock assessment conducted by ICCAT\u2019s Standing Committee on Research and Statistics (SCRS) put to rest the long debate over whether the western stock should be managed under the \u201clow\u201d or \u201chigh\u201d recruitment scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder low recruitment, the abundant recruitments experienced in the early 1970s are no longer to be expected, while the high recruitment hypothesis suggests that we can rebuild the stock to uncertain historical levels again,\u201d Ruais wrote.\u00a0 \u201cUpdated and revised estimates of recruitment from this year\u2019s assessment shift the weight of evidence strongly in favor of the low recruitment hypothesis.\u00a0 The western Atlantic bluefin stock biomass is more than rebuilt.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Meta Slider - HTML Overlay - CFN_12_14-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/CFN_12_14-cover-121x150.jpg\" width=\"121\" height=\"150\" \/>Read the rest of this story and much, much more in the December issue of\u00a0<em>Commercial Fisheries News<\/em>. \u00a0Buy this issue or\u00a0<a title=\"Marketplace\" href=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/marketplace\/\">Subscribe<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0[add_to_cart=5524]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(Read online immediately with access key and download for future reference.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"ninja-children-wrap\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENOA, ITALY \u2013 The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) concluded its annual meeting here on Nov. 17 and adopted, with overwhelming support, increases in both the western and eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna quotas. 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