The tropical tuna working group of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) met this past March at the Oceanographic Centre (IEO) of the Canary Islands.
The meeting was attended by scientists from the European Union (France, Portugal and Spain), USA, Korea, Ghana and Senegal, as well as staff of the ICCAT. The participants worked on the draft of a large scale tuna tagging project in the Atlantic, similar to that developed recently in the Indian Ocean.
In addition, the members of the meeting reviewed some of the statistical problems of the major fleets, they discussed the implementation of a management plan for the use of floating objects to concentrate catches and studied the port sampling plan that must be implemented to collect information on the banned area in the Atlantic.
The meeting was held between 18 and 21 March at the new facilities of the Oceanographic Centre IEO of the Canaries.