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Tuna vessel of ANABAC fleet. (Photo: Anabac)
ANABAC requests end of 'hasty' yellowfin tuna fishery ban in Indian Ocean
(SPAIN, 10/9/2017)
The Association of Freezer Tuna Vessels (ANABAC) expressed its outrage at the action of the General Secretariat of Fisheries in yellowfin tuna management in the Indian Ocean.
The association questions that the government agency has decreed the precautionary closure of the fishery, "which is unfair for ANABAC operators", and that it has hidden "the exhaustion of the Spanish yellowfin tuna quota in the Indian Ocean due to the Olympic fishing mode during this season".
In its opinion, "the result is an unsustainable management of this fishery and irreparable economic damage for the operators of the Basque association ANABAC".
The organization recalls that since the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission approved a recovery plan for yellowfin in May 2016, ANABAC has been transferring "the need to have a sustainable management plan and a suitable quota allocation", as established in the TAC Regulation and quotas of the European Union, to the Spanish Administration.
But it points out that, far from that, the Indian yellowfin tuna fishing season has been developing this year without the Spanish administration’s implementation of any plan for this fishery.
"The General Secretariat of Fisheries, irresponsibly and unsustainably, has not put any means to prevent uncontrolled fishing during this yellowfin tuna fishing season in the Indian Ocean," says ANABAC.
According to the organization, "the hasty precautionary closure of the yellowfin tuna fishery, decreed only one day after officially communicating a consumption of 82 per cent of the quota, demonstrates absolute irresponsibility on the part of the General Secretariat of Fisheries and represents a return to the unsustainable criterion of Olympic fishing".
ANABAC operators denounce this situation and require the General Secretariat of Fisheries to enforce and respect the quotas allocated and to urgently lift the precautionary closure of the yellowfin tuna fishery to operators who have acted in a sustainable way so that they can act in accordance with their assigned quotas.
"Continuing with the closure for the entire fleet would mean deepening the discrimination towards ANABAC and the biased action that the General Secretariat of Fisheries has been maintaining, which would cause irreparable harm that will be claimed by the relevant channels," concludes the association.
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