AGREEMENTS OF COOPERATION WITH IATTC – TUNACONS

AGREEMENT COOPERATION WITH IATTC

The Tuna Conservation Group (TUNACONS) has made a strategic alliance with the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) with the signing of 2 Memorandum of Understanding, for scientific and technical cooperation in projects that strengthen the sustainable management of tuna populations in the EPO and for the implementation of a pilot test project of FADs built with degradable materials.

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a) Strengthening of the evaluation system for tropical tuna stocks in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO)

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b) Evaluation of impacts of sets on FADs on juvenile yellowfin and bigeye tuna, as well as on by-catch

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c) Technical review of the good use of the sorting grid

Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares) are cage-fed to improve the quality of their meat. La Paz, Mexico.

d) Analysis of depth nets impact in juvenile tunas

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e) Improvements in good practices for handling bycatch,

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c) Technical review of the good use of the sorting grid

f) Pilot projects of human observers on ships smaller than Class 6, and on electronic monitoring on all classes of tuna purse seiners,

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g) Pilot project on the collection of discarded FADs,

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h) Fleet capacity management plan in the EPO.

About the pilot project to develop degradable Plantados, several prototypes that meet the basic requirements of being non-entangled and degradable (NEDFADs or NEDs) will be tested and, to reduce their ecological impacts, they will not use nets (nor in the structure of flotation or raft neither in the submerged structure or tail, nor synthetic materials of any kind (except in [a satellite buoy and in the small marks that are used for identification of FADs), or chemicals that may be toxic in the environment (this It also refers to paints, gums, resins, and other glues. . Constructed with materials that come from a sustained production system, and that do not produce toxic or polluting substances when they decompose. . Durable, to cover the needs of fishing, which may vary according to the areas or strategies of the fleets. These can vary from 6 months in fisheries with important seasonal variations, up to 9 - 12 months or more in other cases.