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Mixed Results at ICCAT 2025: Skipjack Management Procedure Adoption Marks Progress, Other Key Reforms Slip to 2026 and Beyond
As ICCAT concludes its 2025 annual meeting in Seville, ISSF offers a measured assessment of the outcomes. While the Commission made meaningful progress in some areas, particularly on harvest strategies, many issues central to achieving fully monitored and accountable fisheries were deferred to intersessional work in 2026 and beyond. Intense time spent on bluefin tuna quota negotiations also limited the Commission’s ability to advance other priority reforms.
We evaluate the results of the meeting through the lens of the priorities highlighted in our October ICCAT preview: finalizing harvest strategies, scaling up electronic monitoring and observer coverage, and advancing bycatch mitigation and shark conservation.
FAO unveils “management procedures” e-learning series at ICCAT meeting
Virtual learning tool for harvest strategies that make fisheries sustainable and profitable
A five course FAO e-learning series on how to craft management procedures was unveiled for the first time at the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), in Seville, Spain.
The series of five courses was developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with the support of The Ocean Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts and the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation, within the FAO Common Oceans Tuna project.
“Management procedures in tuna fisheries have achieved substantial and increasing accomplishments so far,” said Camille Jean Pierre Manel, Executive Secretary, International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, “the e-Learning series will help ensure their continued success by enabling all members and stakeholders to contribute meaningfully to these processes and leading to more sustainable tuna fisheries going forward.”
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