That was never, ever, a part of the ancestry of that RFMO.” Shane Jones, Fisheries Minister The South Pacific area makes up around a quarter of all international waters, with high seas bottom trawling ...

ICCAT is a Regional Fisheries Management Organization (RFMO) established in 1966 and responsible for the conservation of tunas and related species in the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas, with its ...

Each RFMO comprises member governments that share a practical or financial interest in managing and conserving fish stocks in a region of the ocean. These include coastal States that border the area ...