6 Dec 2018

Declining albacore numbers a worry for Tuna Commission

From , 6:03 am on 6 December 2018

The environmental group, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, hopes to see changes when the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, meets next week in Honolulu.

The tuna programme manager for the environmental group, Bubba Cook, says they have concerns about FADs or fish aggregation devices and transhipping.

But Mr Cook told Don Wiseman a key priority they want to see put in place is the 'albacare tuna target reference point' .

Frozen albacore tuna offloaded in Lami, Fiji

Frozen albacore tuna offloaded in Lami, Fiji Photo: RNZ / Philippa Tolley