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.

Towards Acoustic Discrimination of Tuna Species at FADS

Date Added:	September 14, 2016
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Tags:	Bigeye Tuna, Bycatch, Conservation Measures, FADs, Purse Seine, Skipjack, Sticky, Tuna, Yellowfin Tuna
Language:	English
Featured:	False
Report Type:	Final

Description

ISSF is sponsoring research to develop a methodology to achieve acoustic selectivity of tropical tuna species, exploring the frequency response of tunas with and without swim-bladders. Swim-bladdered and non-swim-bladdered species typically have different contrasting frequency responses. This research could be applied during fishing operations to help distinguish skipjack (non-swim-bladdered fish) from bigeye and yellowfin tunas (swim-bladdered fish) — and avoid catching undesirable tuna species in FAD sets.