World Tuna Day 2023; May 2nd.

FORUM: “Ensuring sustainable Tuna fishing sector.” World Tuna Day 2023. 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. 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 2023 at FAO Headquarters in Rome. Get the list of RFMO’s upcoming events: IOTC Meetings, ICCAT Meetings, IATC Meetings and the WCPSC Meetings.

CAMPAIGN: We need to conserve our wonderful tuna resources for future generations. YES WE CAN!. 

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.