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The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission is continuing in its unbroken record of failure to regulate one of the world's largest tuna fisheries, WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature writes.

IOTC scientists, grappling with dangerously inadequate information on all stocks, had warned that yellowfin tuna was “probably” overfished.

"Most of the world's large tuna fisheries are poorly managed by bodies that commission scientific assessments and then set catch quotas that ignore them, but the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission is the most dysfunctional of all," said WWF International Marine Director Miguel Jorge.

Atlantic tuna not protected either.
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, in november 2008, also brushed aside its own review’s description of its management of the bluefin fishery as “an international disgrace” to endorse a total allowable catch (TAC) of 22,000 tonnes for next year.