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Bigeye Tuna for sale at the fish market in Hawaii.

27 Nov 2008
Pacific tuna face risky fisheries meeting
Yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna fisheries in the western and central Pacific also face collapse if a forthcoming management meeting doesn't dramatically change the way they are harvested, WWF warned today.
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ICCAT, 2008: a decade long tradition of ignoring its scientists on catches and seasons continues, risking collapse of the world's last surviving large bluefin fishery.

24 Nov 2008
Tuna commission comes up with "a disgrace, not a decision"
The commission tasked with preventing a collapse of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery today opted for catch quotas still far higher than its own scientists recommend and leaving industrial fleets free to scoop up tuna at the height of its spawning period.
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23 Nov 2008
Timeline of a fishery failure
As the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) heads towards its hardest fought decision on management of the out-of-control bluefin fishery yet, WWF sets out the sorry history of bluefin regulation in an easy-to-follow chronology
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Tuna for sale at the Tokyo Fish Market, Japan

20 Nov 2008
Thousands join bluefin tuna boycott
Close to 16,000 citizens from 149 countries have signed up to join numerous restaurants, retailers and chefs in boycotting Mediterranean bluefin tuna – until stocks have recovered and the fishery is properly controlled and managed.
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Mediterranean bluefin tuna — highly prized around the world, especially in Japan for sushi and sashimi — has been under increasing pressure from overfishing. Display of frozen tunas to be auctioned at the Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo, Japan.

17 Nov 2008
Tuna commission faces final roll of the dice on future of Mediterranean bluefin
The 46 Contracting Parties to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas meeting in Marrakech, Morocco until 24 November will decide whether Mediterranean bluefin tuna – and the fishery that depends on it – can be saved from collapse. » Read more

14 Nov 2008
Europe sits on damning bluefin tuna report
A European fisheries report demonstrating continuing widespread infringements by bluefin tuna fleets despite increased fleet surveillance in the Mediterranean has been delayed until after the conclusion of next week's key international tuna commission meeting to decide on a new management regime for the fishery.

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Fishermen with new catch on a beach of the Mediterranean sea, Coto Doñana National Park, Spain.

14 Nov 2008
Illegal fishing harms honest fishermen
WWF welcomes the European Commission’s decision to put out a legislative proposal to update current control and enforcement rules for fisheries. WWF urges EU Fisheries Ministers to provide a coherent and efficient system of rules against widespread illegality in the fisheries sector. » Read more

Illegal fishing is threatening remaining cod stocks in the Grand Banks off Canada’s east coast.

10 Nov 2008
EU and Norway in cod stalemate
An impasse between Norway and the European Union today has put the recovery of North Sea cod stocks at further risk.
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Australian Customs Service staff board the IUU boat, Viarsa, caught stealing Patagonian toothfish in the Southern Ocean in 2003.

05 Nov 2008
Pirates taking heavy toll of toothfish
The future of the Patagonian and Antarctic toothfish and the highly valuable fishery concentrated in the Southern Ocean is under significant pressure from illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
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04 Nov 2008
A million tonnes of North Sea fish discarded every year
A million tonnes of fish and other sea creatures caught in the North Sea are thrown overboard every year, according to a new report from WWF-Germany.
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