Temporal closures are marine resource management strategies that are implemented to control fishing effort, to improve spawning potential by protecting adults during spawning season, or to protect juveniles from depletion during times of recruitment.
Year: 2010
Closure year: 2010
Resolution C-09-01 on the Conservation of Tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean establishes that:
1. Each purse-seine vessel of over 182 metric tons carrying capacity (IATTC size classes 4, 5 and 6) that fishes for tunas in the EPO shall cease fishing from either (1) 29 July to 28 September; or (2) 18 November 2010 to 18 January 2011.
2. Each IATTC Party, cooperating non-Party, fishing entity or regional economic integration organization (“CPC”) shall ensure that every one of its vessels ceases to fish during one of these two periods, except that each size-class 4 vessel with an observer on board may make one fishing trip of up to 30 days during its declared closure period.
A list of the vessels subject to these closures, and of the closure period that each one will observe, is available here.