To: Heads of Delegations, International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
This week’s ICCAT meeting is the fifth one where Parties grapple with scientists’ warnings about serious overfishing of North Atlantic shortfin mako sharks. Inadequate management responses to the associated advice to ban all retention from this population risks a collapse of this valuable resource.
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