Bigeye tuna fisheries worsening, new assessments show
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28 Jul 2014 - 18 Jan 2016
New assessments on the status of key regional tuna stocks recently released by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) show that skipjack and yellowfin remain in a reasonably healthy state, but bigeye, the mainstay of the tropical longline fishery, has now been reduced to less than 20 per cent of its unfished stock size.
Keywords: TUNA, FISHERIES RESOURCES
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