Brazil obtains international authorization to maintain tuna fishing volume
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(BRAZIL, 11/30/2023)
In the final round of negotiations that ended on November 20th in the city of Cairo, Egypt, Brazil obtained authorization from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) to maintain the fishing limit for mandolin yellowfin tuna (Thunnus obesus ) by 6 thousand tons without having to “return” all at once the 1,587 tons fished in excess in 2022.
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