RFMO Best Practices Snapshots - International Seafood Sustainability Foundation

Our “snapshots” identify best practices that Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) should follow to manage tuna fisheries sustainably.

In detailed tables, the snapshots compare tuna RFMO progress in implementing the practices.

For a high-level comparison across the five RFMOs, see our Tuna RFMO Best Practice Performance “scorecard” below. We also publish companion “best-practices reports” on these topics and “RFMO progress” infographics.

Saving the Mobula Rays Poster: Atlantic Ocean (English)

Date Added:	January 3, 2022
Downloaded:	76 times
Tags:	Atlantic Ocean, Bycatch, Bycatch Mitigation, Mobula rays
Language:	English
Report Type:	Final

Description

This poster for tuna fishers shows six ray species found in Atlantic Ocean tuna fisheries. It also provides location and life-cycle information and illustrates “acceptable” and “not acceptable” handling and release techniques to reduce ray bycatch.

“Saving the Mobula Rays” is shared courtesy of ISSF Seafood Sustainability Contest Grand Prize Winner Melissa Cronin. The poster is available in different languages and for different ocean regions.