World Tuna Day 2024; May 2nd.

FORUM: “Highlighting the importance of sustainably managed fish stocks in achieving the 2030 Agenda.” World Tuna Day 2024. For tuna populations to thrive, fisheries need robust management, effective enforcement, and reductions in catching unwanted or endangered species or bycatch. Between 2014 and now, the number of major tuna stocks experiencing overfishing went down from 13 to five. A new project developed aims to ensure that all major tuna stocks are fished at sustainable levels by 2027. This ambitious goal is part of its efforts towards more sustainable tuna fishing and biodiversity conservation. From 2014-2019, the Common Oceans Tuna project helped reduce the number of tuna stocks experiencing overfishing from 13 to 5. To make this happen, the Common Oceans ABNJ Program brought together scientists and fishery managers to develop sustainable and transparent tuna harvest strategies and processes based on computer simulation exercises. Learn more about the programe; Follow the conversation with the hashtags: #2May, #WorldTunaDay, #BigBlueFuture, #sustainabletuna, #sustainablysourcedseafood.

EVENTS: On May 2nd; The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture, the Organizations with sustainability claims on tuna, the Tuna fishing industries and the Environmental Groups or NGO’s involved within the tuna sector will hold a webinar to celebrate World Tuna Day 2024 at FAO Headquarters in Rome.

Get the list of RFMO’s upcoming events: IOTC Meetings, ICCAT Meetings, IATC Meetings and the WCPSC Meetings.

World Tuna Day 2022; May 2nd.

 FORUM: Raise awareness about the importance of tuna and to promote more sustainable fishing practices. World Tuna Day 2022.

 The World Tuna Day is observed on 2 May to Address the decline in tuna stocks resulting from overfishing in the world’s oceans, the UN Legal Counsel emphasizes the critical importance of effectively implementing the international legal framework, as reflected in the UNCLOS Convention.

Learn about

The Global Tuna Catches by Stock;

The Global Atlas of Tuna and Tuna-like species;

The Global Capture Production.

World Tuna Day 2021; May 2nd

FORUM: Sustainable development and management of fisheries and aquaculture.  

World Tuna Day 2021.

Their meat is rich in Omega-3 and it also contains minerals, proteins, and vitamin B12, among other advantages. If tuna markets can't control overfishing, more than biodiversity will be endangered. Learn about the goal's target related to overfishing and its importance for an industry that employs more than 200 million people. At present, over 96 countries are involved in the conservation and management of tuna, which has an annual value of almost 10 billion USD, and some FAO relevant programmes have started giving positive results in reducing overfishing.

Let's be optimistic about the tuna of tomorrow.

                                                            

Improve the identification of marine organisms of actual and potential interest to fisheries.

• Provide and disseminate tools to facilitate species identification in fisheries, and in so doing, improve fisheries data quality.
• Provide a global and coherent system of scientific and common nomenclature.

Priority is assigned to resources of major commercial importance or threatened and to developing regions facing difficulties in species identification.

Activities

• Secure the best up-to-date information calling upon knowledgeable specialists in taxonomy.
• Compile information on species distribution to produce distribution maps.
• Draw reliable and accurate illustrations of marine organisms and their anatomical details.
• Produce and distribute through different media, species identification information for fishery purposes.

 The United Nations General Assembly designated 2 May as World Tuna Day in its Resolution 71/124.