Bigeye tuna fisheries worsening, new assessments show

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.

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Keywords: TUNA, FISHERIES RESOURCES

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Related Topics: Fishery Resources, Fisheries and Aquaculture

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